
SilvaGunnernote was a YouTube channel started in 2008 that uploaded video game music... until it was removed for copyright violations in October 2010. Shortly after, fellow music uploader TimmyTurnersDad created GilvaSunnernote as a tribute, though after a storied career, it was sadly taken down in 2022. This page isn't about either channel (but you probably knew that).
SiIvaGunnernote is a collaborative project that publishes remixes of game soundtracks, but mimics the video metadata from the aforementioned GilvaSunner, thus making the videos look like unedited music from various games when they are typically either an "In the Style of" arrangement or Music Mashup involving the game's soundtrack. All with a healthy dosage of Running Gags, many of them being memes (for example 7 GRAND DAD).
SiIvaGunner was started in January 2016 by someone using the moniker "Chaze the Chat", who was inspired by YouTube channels that posed as LittleKuriboh during the height of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' popularity. It was originally known as GiIvaSunnernote to better impersonate GilvaSunner, but that caused the entire channel to be wiped from YouTube four months into its run, so when moving to the current channel it was rebranded to SiIvaGunner. The new channel also saw a shift to having genuine remixes instead of simple memes, and along with that the kayfabe of posing as GilvaSunner morphed into an actual narrative.
The SiIvaGunner channel continued uploading videos regularly until September 2016 when it was announced that the channel would be ending. However, it would see a special return for Halloween and Christmas that year. The Christmas special in particular featured an episodic series, but the seventh episode fell into Development Hell for four months, which led to the channel being Un-Canceled. SiIvaGunner has continued uploading regularly ever since.
In accordance with the above, the team has decided to sort the channel into seasons:
- Season 1 covers 2016 up until the Halloween special return.
- Season 2 began in November 2016 and extends to all of 2017.
- Season 3 covers 2018 and a bit of 2019.
- Season 4 covers the remainder of 2019 and all of 2020, the latter being "Episode 2".
- Season 5 covers 2021 and a bit of 2022.
- Season 6 covers the remainder of 2022.
- Season 7 began in February 2023 and ended in January 2024.
- Season 8 began in the latter half of January 2024 and ended in January 2025.
- Season 9 began in the latter half of January 2025 and is currently running.
The collective behind the channel has notably spawned several spinoff collectives:
- SiIvaGunner Fusion Records (shortened to SGFR as a parody of SBFR/salvation by faith Records), formed out of the more arrangement-based direction of the King for a Day series, is dedicated to remixes and arrangements, and releases their albums through the channel. They have a website here
and a Bandcamp here
. - SG Art Team (supposedly short for Sexy Grandpa Art Team), which handles the (visual) art for big projects on the channel, such as the aforementioned King for a Day. They have helped with non-SiIvaGunner collaborations, and claimed to be unaffiliated with SiIvaGunner prior to 2025. They have a separate YouTube channel here
. - TimmyTurnersGrandDad and VvvvvaVvvvvvr, two YouTube channels founded by members of SiIvaGunner that publish similar content and have sometimes had significant influence on SiIvaGunner's content and fanbase, though despite the overlap in contributors, they're officially considered Fan Works.
The channel can be viewed here
, its Twitter can be found here
, and its Bandcamp here
. It also has an official site that is used to host links to mods and albums, as well as the King for Another Day MOJO!!; said site doesn't have a proper home page but the link is here
.
- Volume 1
(March 30th, 2016) - Volume 2
: an April Fools' Day joke album that contains 200+ copies of "Grand Metropolis" from Sonic Heroes (alongside several different pictures). (April 1st, 2016) - Volume 3 & Knigra
(May 30th, 2016) - Volume FOUR HOURS!
: themed around the reboot. (July 9th, 2016) - Volume 5
: a Bait-and-Switch similar to Volume 2. It contains a few slight variations on the theme song to The Nutshack, and a few pictures. (July 29th, 2016) - Volume 6.66
(July 31, 2016) - Volume 7
(October 23, 2016)- Volume 7: Part mm2wood
(October 29, 2016)
- Volume 7: Part mm2wood
- Volume 8-Bit Beast
: compiles the Halloween 2016 rips. (November 15, 2016) - The Voice's Highest Quality Video Game Rips
(June 14, 2017) - Haltmann's Highest Quality Video Game Rips
(August 20, 2017) - Volume A
(July 1, 2018) - Volume AI
(October 20, 2019) - Volume L
: compiles removed rips and other rips from before October 20, 2019 that hadn't yet been released in an album (September 02, 2020)- Volume L [Side B]
(September 02, 2020)
- Volume L [Side B]
- Volume for Wii U
& Volume for Nintendo 3DS
: Compiles rips uploaded between Volume AI and the SiivaSummer All-Star Festival; for Wii U covers regular rips, while for 3DS covers event rips (November 06, 2020) - Volume V
: compiles rips uploaded between the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival and the SiIvaGunner All-Star Winter Festival (March 22, 2021) - Volume C
& Volume D
: Compiles most non-All-Star Summer Festival 2021 rips from Season 5 (October 11, 2021) - Volume GS
(March 28, 2022) - Volume FF
& Volume DQ
(October 02, 2022) - volume
(March 27, 2023) - Volume Ruby
& Volume Sapphire
: Compiles rips from the first half of Season 7 (November 15, 2023) - The Joke-Explainer™ 7000's Highest Quality Rips: Sunrise
& Sunset
: Covers rips from Season 8; also the first albums to be released on a new Bandcamp page (J.E.'s Archive) since the disabling of the original account (November 19, 2024)- The Joke-Explainer™ 7000's Highest Quality Rips: Nightfall
: Completes the trilogy by covering the remainder of Season 8's rips (March 13, 2025)
- The Joke-Explainer™ 7000's Highest Quality Rips: Nightfall
- Volume L Again
: Similar to the first Volume L, compiling rips that had not yet been on an album prior to Season 8 (December 3, 2024)- Volume L Again [Side B]
(December 3, 2024)
- Volume L Again [Side B]
- Stingy's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Mine
: Compiles all of the rips from Stingy's first takeover of the channel, including the few mini-events that took place during it (March 12, 2025) - JK-EX-7000, Dr. Andonuts & Stingy's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Ours Side A
& Side B
: Covers rips from Season 9, including all the rips released during Stingy's second takeover (October 2, 2025)
Other Albums
- The Phantom Rips: SiIVa has come to
: music from the Metal Gear series. (April 12th, 2016)- The Phantom Rips: Subsistence
: a rerelease of The Phantom Rips with extra tracks. (September 30th, 2016)
- The Phantom Rips: Subsistence
- 7 Gram Dab
: edits related to weed, mainly "The Next Episode", to celebrate 4/20. (April 20th, 2016) - KORIBALL
: a joke album. (May 7th, 2016) - 7 GRAND MOTHER
: music from the Mother series to celebrate Mother's Day. (May 8th, 2016) - 765 GRAND DAD
: music from Namco games to celebrate Pac-Man's 36th birthday. (May 23rd, 2016)- 876 GRAND DAD
: Rips of various Bandai Namco games (particularly entries in the Katamari series) created for NAMCO Day 2 & Bandai and Katamari Day (March 18, 2025)
- 876 GRAND DAD
- .
: an album containing no actual music. It was the beginning of the Father's Day ARG.
(June 20th, 2016) - Grand Dad 64
: music from Super Mario 64 to celebrate its 20th Anniversary. (June 24th, 2016) - 7 Somari Dad
: music from the Sonic the Hedgehog series to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. (June 25th, 2016) - Heaven Grand Dad
: music from the Rhythm Heaven series to celebrate its 10th Anniversary. (August 22nd, 2016) - Kirby Rip Attack
: music from the Kirby series. (August 23rd, 2016) - il settimo grande padre
: music that was composed by Yoko Shimomura to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Live A Live. (September 2nd, 2016) - Ooooooooo I Smoke The Weed, I'm Bob Dylan
: an album featuring "Bob Dylan" singing various songs associated with the channel's running gags. (September 24th, 2016) - Gurando no Mori
: the entire soundtrack of Animal Crossing: The Movie to celebrate its 10th Anniversary, as well as a few extras. (September 25th, 2016) - beatmania IIDX 7 GRAND
: music from Konami's BEMANI series. (September 25th 2016) - Crypt of the Necrokazoo
: Crypt of the NecroDancer's entire soundtrack covered with kazoos. (September 26th, 2016) - JOEJOE'S BIZZAERE JOJOKE
: Stylistic Suck rips involving JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, ostensibly in celebration of Joseph Joestar's birthday but more likely as a Take That, Audience!. Notably, it was promoted as a regular JoJo album called 7 STAND DAD. (September 27th, 2016) - Quality Sampler
: music from LSD: Dream Emulator. (September 28th, 2016) - SILVA GUNNER BEST OF SOUNDTRACK【B̴/W】
: "beta mixes" from Pokémon Black and White. (September 28th, 2016) - Stagg Street Arrangements
: video game-styled remixes from the rare album Stagg Street Recordings by Kara's Flowers, who would later be known as Maroon 5. (September 29th, 2016) - CD Grand Beta
: "beta mixes" from Sonic the Hedgehog CD. (September 30th, 2016) - Five Nights at Freddy's Original Soundtrack
: "music" "from" "Five Nights at Freddy's 1" (actually a compilation of the original "Circus" rips). (September 30th, 2016) - PC Master Rips
: music from PC games. (September 30th, 2016) - Zero Grand Prix
: music from F-Zero. (April 2nd, 2017) - Kingdom Hearts Chain Of Memories Final Mix HD Reverb Edition
; a collection of Stylistic Suck rips of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. (May 14th, 2017) - Inspector Gunner
: rips from the Inspector Gadget event. (May 26, 2017) - A HOT ONE
: smooth rips from the Santana takeover. (July 10th, 2017) - .@GiIvaSunner Whips & Nae Naes on Ellen the Generous
: rips from Whip and Nae Nae day (July 13, 2017) - wood man's very nice album ...feat. mega man, i guess
: Rips from Mega Man and the Wood Man takeover (August 22, 2017) - DAMN.
Rips from Advanced Wars, Game Boy Advanced, and Douk Nouk Kem games (August 22th, 2017) - HatsiIva Miku: Ripping Diva
: Rips from Hatsune Miku's 10th anniversary (September 1st, 2017) - The SiIvaGunner YTPMV Collab (Eek!).veg
: rips made with common YouTube Poop and YTPMV sources and methods (December 7th, 2017) - Ripmas
: rips based on Jake Paul's Christmas songs (December 14th, 2017) - Your Onii-Chan's Favorite Rips!
: rips based on Oreimo or George Michael's "Careless Whisper" (December 24th, 2017) - Rips of Christmas Past
& Rips of Christmas Future
: Rips based on Winter or Snow tracks; "Past" compiles rips from 2016, & "Future" compiles rips from 2017 (December 27, 2017)- Rips of Christmas Present
: Rips from the lead-up to and including the return of The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis (January 17, 2024)
- Rips of Christmas Present
- Now That's What I Call Quality!: A series of albums originally exclusive to attendees of the MAGfest SiIvaGunner panels
- Now That's What I Call Quality!
(released publicly Februrary 18, 2018) - Now That's What I Call Quality! 2
(released publicly March 30, 2019) - Now That's What I Call Quality! 3
(released publicly February 03, 2024)
- Now That's What I Call Quality!
- Inspector Gunner 2 With Critic
: Rips uploaded during the Second Inspector Gadget Takeover and the subsequent Nostalgia Critic Takeover (April 18, 2018) - VGM To Do Your Taxes To
: Rips during the Tax Day deadline (April 18, 2018) - STRINGS OF FATE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for a Day Tournament Original Soundtrack
: Rips uploaded during the King for a Day Tournament, as well as an art pack and credits minigame. (October 08, 2018) - SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials
: A compilation of the channel's highest quality rips, intended for those new to the channel (January 09, 2019) - SiIvaGunner (Blue Album)
: An April Fool's joke album dedicated to blue balls rips (April 1, 2019) - E3 2019 Press Kit
: Rips uploaded during the E3 2019 event (June 14, 2019) - SiIva Direct Presents
: A compilation of the King for Another Day Tournament promotional music tracks and rips (September 21, 2019) - The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Collection '17-'19
: Halloween rips uploaded between 2017 and 2019 (November 4, 2019) - King for Another Day Tournament albums: Rips uploaded during the King for Another Day Tournament event (January 08, 2020)
- FIRST STRIKE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 1
: The arrangements of Metal Ajit Pai, Off the Hook ft. Paruko, Pitbull and the Aliens, Thanos, King Dedede, Solid Snake, Quote, Johnny Bravo, Dr. Robotnik, Daft Punk ft. Pharrell, Dr. Piccolo, HOBaRT, Rhythm Masters, and Nico Nico. - SECOND WIND ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 2
: The arrangements of Geno, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Nintendo Power, Men in Black, ZUN, Wario Partners, LLP, Adam Levine, Mr. Krabs, Papyrus, Jack & Elmo, Donkey Kong, Jack Bros., The Jazz Cats, and Eminem. - FINAL BOUT ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 3
: The arrangements of MissingNo, Law & Disorder, Mariya Takeuchi, and DJ Professor K.
- FIRST STRIKE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 1
- QUALITY ACHIEVED albums: Albums based on DJ mixsets for SiIvaGunner's MAGFest raves
- MAXIMUM QUALITY ACHIEVED
: An album based on the MAGFest "SiIvaGunner High Quality Rave" event (February 03, 2020) - ULTIMATE QUALITY ACHIEVED
: An album based on the Super MAGFest rave of the same name (February 03, 2024) - LIMITLESS QUALITY ACHIEVED
: An album based on the Super MAGFest rave of the same name (June 11, 2025)
- MAXIMUM QUALITY ACHIEVED
- SUPER GANGSTA BROS. MIXTAPE (PROD. HALTMANN WORK$$$)
: Rips uploaded during March 10, 2020 (Mar10 Day), as well as other Gangsta Mario related rips (March 19, 2020) - Paper Jams - A High Quality Album; Compiles the Paper Mario rips
- The First Fold
(June 18, 2020) - The Stationery Sequel
(December 10, 2020) - The Last Letter
(December 09, 2022)
- The First Fold
- DJ Professor K Presents: 24/7 FUNKY FRESH BEATS FROM TOKYO-TO
: Rips uploaded during the DJ Professor K takeover event (July 07, 2020) - 2018.UnregisteredHyperCam2.FullAlbum.XviD.KfaD.320kbps[CDRip]
: Rips uploaded during the Unregistered HyperCam 2 takeover event (August 12, 2020) - Totino's Mania Original Soundtrack
: a complete album of the Totino's Sonic Mania rips; also comes as a Game Mod for the Steam version of the game (August 15, 2020) - The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival albums (September 07, 2020)
- Summer-Colored Smiles ~ The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival Collection
: The rips and fusion collabs uploaded during the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival (September 07, 2020) - Sensational Celebrations ~ The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival Collection [Event Side]
: Rips related to the events that took place during the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival (September 07, 2020)
- Summer-Colored Smiles ~ The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival Collection
- Dr. Pavel's How the Grinch Took Over SiIvaGunner
: Compiles Christmas-themed rips uploaded during 2018 and 2019 (December 19, 2020) - SiIvaGunner Presents: Somewhat Responsive to Requests ~ Touhou Album Now!
: Compiles the Touhou Project themed rips (December 29, 2020) - Neon Lights & Holiday Nights ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Winter Festival Collection
: Rips uploaded during the SiIvagunner All-Star Winter Festival (January 04, 2021) - 24/Seven Grand Rush
: A tribute album to Big Time Rush (January 19, 2021) - STUDIO TRIGGER QUALITY MUSIC WORKS
: Rips of music from Studio TRIGGER works for the studio's 10th anniversary (August 22, 2021) - SiIvaGunner's Lonely Rips Club Band
: Compiles all rips from the Beatles Event, along with some other Beatles-themed rips (August 28, 2021) - The Space Jam Charity SLAM! albums
- The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: First Quarter
: Rips from the first half of the Space Jam Charity SLAM! (September 04, 2021) - The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: B-Ball Side
: Rips from the second half, along with requests (January 22, 2022)
- The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: First Quarter
- The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021: Legends of the Western Sunset albums (September 15, 2021)
- Legends of the Western Sunset ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection
: Compiles all miscellaneous rips and fusion collabs for the SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021, along with other rips related to the Wild West theme (September 15, 2021) - Bloodstained Bounties ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection [Event Side]
: Compiles all event rips (September 15, 2021)
- Legends of the Western Sunset ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection
- The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special: Curse of the Fallen Angel
: Compiles the Halloween 2020 and 2021 rips (November 19, 2021) - Rips from Around the Way 7
: Compiles rips featuring "Yankin" and other songs by Lady, including rips from the Pussy Yankover and Yanksgiving (November 25, 2021) - The Inevitable Holiday Album
: Rips from the Christmas 2021 event (January 23, 2022) - 7 GRAND MAVERICK
: Rips from the April Fools Day 2022 event (April 02, 2022) - SiIvaGrounds: Every Rip, by Everyone
: Compiles rips and videos made for Newgrounds Day (May 04, 2022) - The Harlem Shakeover
: Rips made for "Harlem Shake"'s 10th anniversary (June 1st, 2022) - SiIvaCraft: Volume Alpha Version & Beta Mix
: Rips celebrating the C418 albums Minecraft — Volume Alpha & Beta (July 31, 2022) - The SiIvaGunner Party Pack 7
: Compiles the Halloween 2022 rips (November 03, 2022) - #7 Quality Royale
: Rips celebrating Fortnite Battle Royale's 5th anniversary (November 29, 2022) - The Legend of Cage: Beneath the Mask Official Soundtrack
: Compiles all of the Nicolas Cage-themed "OST Version" rips for The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (December 12, 2022) - Transmission Archive ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival Collection
: Compiles all rips made for the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival, including event rips that were not already in previous albums (December 28, 2022) - Os Barões da Qualidade
: Forró styled rips parodying the group Os Barões da Pisadinha, released on member Felipe Barão's birthday (February 16, 2023) - 1987 Grand Dad
: Rips uploaded for the 8th anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's 3, as well as other rips from the series (April 14, 2023) - I JUST WANNA DO CATCH SOME FISHS
: A collection of every rip of Ultimate Angler / StreetPass Fishing up to its release; the album was dedicated to departed team member Marrow (June 19, 2023) - .@GiIvaSunner Whips & Nae Naes on Ellen the Generous 2: another hit
: Rips from the Whip and Nae Nae Day (Part 2) event (August 25, 2023) - PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection
Compiles rips from the Halloween 2023 event (November 05, 2023) - GiIva Got Back
: Rips dedicated to "Goomba Got Back", including rips made for Goomba Got Back Day (January 12, 2024) - The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection albums: Compiles rips from the second half of Season 7 (February 1st, 2024)
- The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]
(February 1st, 2024) - The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side B]
(February 1st, 2024)
- The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]
- RIPBLOX
: Rips mostly celebrating Roblox's 15th anniversary (February 05, 2024) - garten of bamm-bamm (reference to the child of barney rubble flintstones)
: Compiles rips from the Garten of Banban series. This album is the first one since The Phantom Rips: SiIVa has come to to not be released in the SiIvaGunner Bandcamp page due to the unexpected disabling of the page in April 15, 2024 (May 13, 2024) - 7 Grand Sunshine!!
: Compiles rips related to the Love Live! idol group Aqours, along with its subunit and solo member releases, to celebrate the 9th anniversary of the group's formation (June 30th, 2024) - WorIds (A 10th Anniversary Tribute)
: Compiles rips uploaded during the event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Porter Robinson album Worlds, alongside "Goodbye To A World Fusion Collab" from the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival event. (August 12, 2024) - ...Presented by Cryptid Hunt: The Cryptid Collection
: Compiles rips from the Halloween 2024 event (November 4, 2024) - These Are My Gummy Rips
: Rips relating to the character and music of Gummibär, released on the same day as the memetic album I Am Your Gummy Bear (November 13, 2024) - Gedagsgiving
: Rips featuring the Gegagedigedagidago chicken nugget, as well as associated music such as "Cotton Eye Joe"; also includes rips from the Nugget's Birthday event and e∩Ω story arc (November 29, 2024) - CHAD WARDEN's ABAP Raps Ballume Triple: A glimpse into rips from the Genocide timeline of SiIvaGunner: Rebooted (December 19, 2024)
- Caveman Story
: Rips of music from Cave Story to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary (December 21, 2024) - OGG AND GADGET'S FUCKING COOL COVER ALBUM
: An album of acoustic covers performed by Inspector Gadget and his new friend Ogg, provided in .ogg format for the occasion (January 19, 2025) - The SiIvaGunner 2024 Winter Event albums: Compiles rips and original music from Christmas 2024 (January 23, 2025)
- The SiIvaGunner 2024 Winter Event Side A: Thickmas
: A collection of winter-themed rips as well as rips featuring KSI's "Thick of It" (January 23, 2025) - The SiIvaGunner 2024 Winter Event Side B: RE:SPH
: Rips and original music made for the 2024 ARG (January 23, 2025)
- The SiIvaGunner 2024 Winter Event Side A: Thickmas
- An empty bliss beyond this Forgotten Land
: Rips of Kirby music done in the style of The Caretaker, most of which were originally created to commemorate Kirby and the Forgotten Land's release (May 19, 2025) - 7 GRAND DETECTIVE
: Compiles all of the rips from the Touch Detective series to celebrate the second game's 18th anniversary (May 24, 2025) - 1000 box
: A collection of mashup-style rips that combine tracks from 1000 gecs with songs by the infamous YouTube content farm channel LankyBox (May 27, 2025) - 7:59 [grand dad]
: Compiles various rips themed after Cartoon Network and [adult swim] programming (July 22, 2025) - Law & Disorder – Lethal Proceedings: Court Records
: Rips, arrangements, and original music created for the Law & Disorder takeover (August 7, 2025) - SILVATALE Soundtrack
: Rips of the entirety of Undertale's soundtrack to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary; also comes as a Game Mod for the PC version of the game (September 15, 2025)- SILVATALE Collector's Edition Soundtrack
: Rips of music from Undertale's promo material and console ports, plus other Undertale rips that weren't included in the original album and/or the mod (September 21, 2025)
- SILVATALE Collector's Edition Soundtrack
- smol rips for smol people
: A collection of rips that are all less than 30 seconds long (September 23, 2025) - Kasane Teto: Rips of the Eared Robot
: Rips connected to the Utauloid Kasane Teto (October 12, 2025)
- SGFR-001 — Halation Celebration ~ 10th Anniversary Tribute to Snow halation
: A tribute album full of "Snow halation" remixes for its 10th anniversary (January 1st, 2021) - SGFR-002 — Super Star Symphony
: A remix album dedicated to remixes from the Kirby series (August 14, 2021) - SGFR-003 — Musical Monkey Madness
: An album of arrangements of songs from the Super Monkey Ball series, Also released as a GameBanana audio modpack for the PC version of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. (January 09, 2022) - SGFR-004 — PSY 9th Arrangements
: A remix album of PSY's most recent album at the time, PSY 9th, coinciding with PSY Day 7 (July 19, 2022) - SGFR-005 — Tactical Stealth Arrangements
: A Metal Gear remix album released as part of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival (December 05, 2022) - SGFR-006 — Shovelware from Beyond the Deep!
: An album of arrangements from Shovelware, licenced games, and other cheap games that tend to be overlooked or disparaged (June 25, 2023) - SGFR-007 —
RIP
2: An album that remixes rips from throughout the channel's history, as part of the 7th anniversary celebrations during Season 7 (October 07, 2023) - SGFR-008 — BOMBERTRACKS
: A compilation of remixes based on songs from throughout the Bomberman series (July 09, 2024) - SGFR-009 — INSTALLER INSANITY
: An album remixing songs used in keygen programs, along with other demoscene music (December 10, 2024) - SGFR-010 — The Steam-Powered Melody Machine
: An album that arranges music from (or is closely associated with) games made by Valve (March 25, 2025) - SGFR-011 — LazyTunes
: A compilation of arrangements and remixes of songs from LazyTown, released early into Stingy's second takeover of the channel (June 7, 2025) - SGFR-012 — incompetracks
: A compilation of arrangements of Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free music tracks, produced as a week-long jam project by the SGFR team (August 13, 2025) - SGFR-013 — Mii Plaza Palooza
: A compilation of arrangements and remixes of songs from games prominently starring Miis. (August 29, 2025)
Singles
- SGFR-S0001 — Lonely Rolling Star Fusion Collab (Single)
: A fusion collab based on the song from Katamari Damacy (March 18, 2025)
Compilations
- Jet Set Radio Evolution SIIVA Original Tracks: Original tracks created for a fictional third game in the Jet Set Radio series (July 6, 2025)
- SGFR-C0001 — Jet Set Radio Evolution SIIVA Original Tracks ~ Vol. 0
: Songs originally created for the DJ Professor K takeover (July 6, 2025) - SGFR-C0002 — Jet Set Radio Evolution SIIVA Original Tracks ~ Vol. 1
: Contains a mix of tracks released after the DJ Professor K takeover and tracks created for the album (July 6, 2025)
- SGFR-C0001 — Jet Set Radio Evolution SIIVA Original Tracks ~ Vol. 0
- SGFR-C0003 — Eternal Katamari Original Soundtrack Vol. 1 ~ "Katamari Quality Damacy"
: A blend of original tracks and remixes created for a fictional seventh game in the Katamari series (July 6, 2025)
Other projects
- SGFR has a working relationship with the Axolotl Sun, the developers of Regretevator. This is distinct from their other work in that it is the only project directly associated with the production of an original work, rather than being derivative material. While the specifics of their collaboration are not explicitly disclosed, both SGFR and the main channel are credited for assisting with the development of Regretevator's competitive mode, and prior to this served as the host of several joke variants of the game's soundtrack uploaded as regular rips.
I only add high quality trope examples:
- 10-Minute Retirement: The most egregious Series Fauxnale. The channel uploaded what seemed to be a genuine goodbye message
, stating that the channel was fun while it lasted but that it's time to move on. In addition, all characters were removed from the channel banner, and the channel description was replaced with a single sentence that said "So long, grand cowboy." ...But one hour later, a new rip was uploaded
and all the changes to the channel had been reverted. Rips continued like normal afterwards and the goodbye video was never mentioned again. - Abandoned Catchphrase: SiIvaGunner's catch phrase is "I only upload high quality video game rips.", but this is almost never referenced on the channel after Season 1. Justified as the In-Universe SiIvaGunner character has been Put on a Bus since Season 1. The phrase is still referenced on the highquality.rip website.
- Aborted Arc:
- During the second reboot ARG, The Voice Inside Your Head revealed to Chad Warden/the player in a Pokémon ROM Hack that he didn't actually care about "Snow halation", and instead rebooted the channel to protect it from a greater evil. This plot point doesn't factor into the Voice's motives in the CCC whatsoever, and goes completely unacknowledged for over 8 years until this video
from the Susie ARG which reveals that the Voice rebooted the channel because he had premonitions of the Genocide Ending where Chad kills SiIvaGunner, and what he was protecting SiIvaGunner against was actually Chad Warden himself, manipulating the situation in any way he could to prevent this reality. - After the Reboot, the channel started a brief storyline about Mr. Rental's (or rather, Mr. Own's) crusade against mashups, until rips on the topic abruptly stopped. The arc was revisited during the Season 1 finale, albeit as a behind-the-scenes look at the series where the creator of the arc explains that he didn't really have an ending planned for it in the first place, and stopped doing videos on it because he didn't feel like making any more, though he also shows a partially-finished video that would've been a proper Wrap It Up finale to the arc if he hadn't been too lazy to finish it, including a major twist that the Mr. Rental from the Mr. Rental: The Video Game rips who hates mashups is actually Mr. Own, and he lives in a completely different universe from the nice Mr. Rental seen in the Looney Tunes rips. Since this ending wasn't finished, the final "Slider" rip
which partway through had audio depicting Mr. Rental crashing his car during a police shootout acted as the de facto canon ending, with fans assuming he died. A proper ending to the arc would be made 8 years later as part of the Susie ARG, which finally incorporated the aforementioned twist into an actual canon video. - Zig-Zagged in regards to the Christmas Comeback Crisis arc. It was seemingly aborted for Season 3 with SiIvaGunner returning as the host of the channel, but a lot of things hinted he was Not Quite Back to Normal. The Season 3 finale made it clear - the CCC is still going strong, just in a way that makes it look like it isn't (the real SiIvaGunner character is still asleep, but Haltmann created an A.I. that acts just like him which now runs the channel). Still, most channel lore from Season 3 to Season 6 actually takes place in an Alternate Universe that Wood Man visited for fun, so there are only a few bits of lore related to the CCC in the form of occasional Side Stories and Haltmann's Archives during this time. The CCC would properly return in Season 7, with Episode 11 uploading at the end of that season, and later a lore-heavy ARG at the end of Season 8, also directly related to the CCC, which also connected the previous AU directly to the aforementioned A.I. (and, by proxy, Haltmann and the CCC)
- During the King for Another Day tournament, a minor subplot related to Law & Disorder was the mystery of who assaulted Mr. Bean. After the tournament, it was announced that Law & Disorder's runner-up prize was a visual novel resolving the mystery, complete with a teaser trailer
showcasing two brand new rival characters. Two years following the reveal of the project, however, it was announced to be put on indefinite hold, considered cancelled for all intents and purposes. While Law & Disorder would eventually receive their own takeover in August 2025, said takeover featured no acknowledgement of the Mr. Bean mystery in any way, save for a cameo of the aforementioned rivals in the String Theory channel banner.
- During the second reboot ARG, The Voice Inside Your Head revealed to Chad Warden/the player in a Pokémon ROM Hack that he didn't actually care about "Snow halation", and instead rebooted the channel to protect it from a greater evil. This plot point doesn't factor into the Voice's motives in the CCC whatsoever, and goes completely unacknowledged for over 8 years until this video
- Accidental Pun: The SiIva A.I. was built as part of Project AIRTH (Artificially Intelligent Rip Theatricalizer). The acronym sounds a lot like "Earth", and given that he grows to influence a parallel world with his ripping output to the point where Dr. Andonuts names the reality after him, the potential pun in it ("A.I. Earth") fits that parallel world as well.
- Adaptation Species Change: Two in the "Shop Fusion Collab":
- The Trader is (presumably) human: Hollow Knight is entirely focused on bug-like creatures, so the Hollow Knight/Darkwood segment has the Trader as a bug with sap leaking out of him.
- As humans are long dead in the setting of Splatoon, Cordelia is instead a sea urchin in the Splatoon 3/Dead Estate segment.
- A.I.-cronym: The A.I.s developed by Project AIRTH, which have the purpose of generating high quality rips similar to SiIvaGunner's, are referred to as "Artificially Intelligent Rip Theatricalizers" or "AIRTHs" for short.
- Alternate Reality Game:
- An ARG
began on Father's Day, which was shortly after the reboot. It led to an audio file that revealed that more about the reboot. An extended version of the audio file was later uploaded on YouTube
. - A second Reboot ARG began on July 7th (the day the event was stated to end) which gifted viewers with the ending and the true ending.
- At the end of 2017, another ARG was held that gifted viewers with "Bad Moon Rising - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis", which itself ended with the announcement that SiIvaGunner would have an album for attendees of MAGFest 2018 (which turned out to be Now That's What I Call Quality!).
- A fourth ARG, officially known as "The Susie ARG", took place between December 2024-January 2025. This ARG was dedicated to moving the story of the Christmas Comeback Crisis forward, as well as tying up some loose ends regarding various bits of channel lore. The ARG was divided into two "arcs", both centered around a fully-explorable Haltmann Works Co. internal database:
- "Arc 1
" began on December 19, 2024 with a nonsensical nightmare of a SiIva Direct, which at the end played some Morse code that led to the aforementioned internal database. During this arc, mystery-solvers investigated the six directly-accessible folders ("MAXPH
", "FOOLS
", "BLACK
", "AIRTH
", and "PAINT
", plus a "HELP" folder that had the occasional hint added to it), the first five of which led to new, highly-classified entries in the Haltmann's Archives series, while also expanding upon, clarifying, and tying together many different bits of channel lore along the way. Combining clues taken from the new Haltmann's Archive videos led to a playlist containing the arc's final reward: another new Archives video that revealed Susie Haltmann's status and ended with an fairly-explicit message (later reiterated on the website itself to make it more obvious) that the ARG was on hold for the holidays. - After a lengthy break, "Arc 2
" began on January 17, 2025 with the premiere of the video "Let's discuss business.
", which ended with a hint for the password to "GRAND", the only remaining directly-accessible file. Once unlocked, GRAND
turned out to actually be another folder of clues to solve. A secret shitpost folder that manifested during Arc 1, "NOAKA
", unexpectedly became relevant to the main ARG at this point, and it later saw the addition of "The Prize" subfolder
, which contained some bonus mysteries that led to an additional Haltmann's Archives log, canonizing and ultimately wrapping up the folder's mini-arc. On January 21, the final step of the ARG was completed, and the following night, viewers were rewarded with the finale to Season 8, "The Meeting - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story
".
- "Arc 1
- "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story
", which itself serves as the reward for the RE:SPH ARG's "FOOLS" branch, centers around Reader and Jerome attempting to solve an In-Universe ARG that is a Broad Strokes parody of the branch it serves as the reward for, to the point where even the fictional ARG's reward is also a video that recaps the steps taken during the ARG's solving. - In the middle of his takeover in February 2025, a jealous Stingy created his own "Stingy ARG" just to claim it as his own... However, he was only able to come up with three puzzles before giving up, with this short ARG's reward being a couple pieces of lore and a Google Drive containing raw files, concept art, and other behind-the-scenes goodies from the Susie ARG.
- An ARG
- Alternate Universe:
- The High Quality Reboot is a Cosmic Retcon by The Voice Inside Your Head to exchange the original SiivaGunner Running Gags for others, thus creating an alternate universe. As The Voice Inside Your Head is effectively a god, he can create more alternate universes as he wishes. He tells Chad Warden about several other possible alternate universes, each containing their own set of Running Gags.
- On June 17th 2017, a video was uploaded with an alternate version of the reboot's true ending called Genocide ending. In it, Chad kills Snow Halation, the Voice and later SiIva himself, revealing this was his plan all along and taking over the channel. The following day is flooded with rips that mostly include Lego Pornstar's "Abe's Dead" (a.k.a. the 'Chicken and Chips' song), suggested to be the work of this universe's Chad. A day later, a video called '...' is posted, where Wood Man appears and reveals this is just an example of a timeline where Chad is more like his real life self than the idealized version from the reboot. Wood Man then admits he just did this for fun before bringing the viewers back to the main timeline.
- As revealed in "FILE-INT-PAINT", the Mr. Rental: The Video Game, Waluigi's Tacostand, and Looney Tunes rips are part of their own separate universes, and weren't merely part of a non-canon arc. Waluigi himself originated from the Kirby Fighters universe before being warped into the CCC.
- The rips of the SiIva A.I. influenced a pocket reality, connected to Haltmann's computer the same way the main universe is connected to SiIvaGunner's. Haltmann's R&D division was surprised to find out that the A.I.'s takeovers weren't the results of him acting up and taking on a persona, but rather relaying information from a world where they actually happened (though with the inhabitants unaware of the worlds beside theirs or what is basically their god). This is also the universe where Wood Man had been staying in until his disappearance.
- Anonymous Band: This is done to maintain Kayfabe. However, it's Averted in some places:
- The featured channels list contains several contributors' channels.
- All of the albums credit the creators appropriately, except in a few cases where placeholders such as "Barney Rubble" or other joke names are used. The albums also reveal the proper "names" for each rip.
- Many contributors have playlists collecting all of their rips, which is in turn used by the SiIvaGunner Wiki to place the proper credit on most rips.
- Anti-Frustration Features: The (fan-run, but officially-endorsed
) SiIvaGunner Wiki analyses the contents of each listed rip in great detail, including barely noticeable additions or possible references which is especially helpful for rips with more esoteric punchlines. - Anti-Humor: Rips with large portions of the song left intact fit this trope, most notably "Dancing Mad (Beta Mix) - Final Fantasy VI"
, which goes for well over 11 minutes before The Flintstones theme song is heard. - April Fools' Day:
- The second volume of his highest quality rips... which contained 245 copies of Grand Metropolis in .flacnote , with 245 copies of the same image of Kevin Spacey, and a few other images (including an entire folder of Angry Joe pictures) thrown in for good measure.
- The channel also uploaded the entire soundtrack of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy unedited, followed by three unedited songs that resembled The Flintstones theme song. Then they uploaded "Grand Metropolis" again.
- The real GilvaSunner uploaded Final Destination
. - In 2017, the channel and the real GilvaSunner swapped upload schedules (though their content still remained the same).
- In 2018, the channel started a second Inspector Gadget takeover, now with The Nostalgia Critic.
- In 2020, the channel ripped songs from other April Fools joke games in lieu of their own gag.
- In 2021, the channel began a mini-narrative about Mario becoming Ret-Gone as an extended jab to Nintendo's decision to remove the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection on the same day. This is notable for being the only April Fools gag on the channel to be played for drama instead of comedy, as the rips uploaded used songs and covers implying loss or isolation as their "jokes."
- In 2022, the channel instead released rips referencing Logan Paul, as it was his birthday.
- In 2023, the channel released a series of Beta Mixes of existing rips, wherein the jokes of existing rips were slightly (or sometimes dramatically) altered, usually to reference the original rip or sometimes other related rips. This at first extended to rips that already had a Mix in the game (leading to things like "(Alpha Mix) (Beta Mix)"), then to rips that already had "(Beta Mix)" in the name, including rips that were already ripped earlier that day. Some rips even recieved multiple revisions with chains of "(Beta Mix)" that broke the video title character limit. This even extended to Beta Mixes of videos that weren't even proper rips to begin with, including album announcement videos, lore videos (including one Haltmann's Archives file that gave some lore on the event itself), and two Christmas Comeback Crisis episodes.
- In 2024, the channel spent the day parodying music edit trends throughout the history of YouTube, while also making faux appeals to the site's algorithm to spoof channels that do the same for real. The associated playlist is titled "Uploads from SiIvaGunner, But Something's Wrong...."
- In 2025, SiIvaGunner began posting high quality Fictional Video Game rips, starting with Guardians of Sunshine and including those such as SquisherZ and Oh! That's a Baseball!!, as well as a not-insignificant amount of music from Radio TV Solutions' GameClam press conferences, with the final few rips implying that these were games consumed by the anafabula/SCP-2747.
- Arc Number: 7, referencing the bootleg Mario/Flintstones game "7 GRAND DAD".
- On most of Siiva's albums, the number of songs is a multiple of 7. Depending on the album, this count either includes or excludes songs that are only available through downloading the album.
- The seventh rip of "Grand Metropolis" was the only one edited.
- To celebrate reaching 7,000 subscribers, Siiva uploaded an edited version
of a video
that the real GilvaSunner had uploaded to celebrate reaching 150,000 subscribers. - Level 1 (Desert Bus)
and Beloved Tomboyish Girl (Extended Mix)
are both several hours long, and they both feature The Flintstones theme song at the seven hour mark. "Overworld
" from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' only runs for nearly eleven minutes, but it features the Flintstones theme song at the seven minute mark.- The rip of "Pause Screen"
from Wario World (Which was uploaded during the reboot) features The Flintstones theme song at the 7 minute mark, but it quickly begins switching between the theme songs for The Flintstones, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, before moving on to other songs. - The rip
of "Kakariko Village (Night)" instead features "POKEMON GO SONG!!!" at the 7 hour mark.
- The rip of "Pause Screen"
- After releasing his third album, SiIva took a seven day break and returned on June 7th.
- In this video
, Siiva goes to buy new ripping software after the program that he had been using up until that point stops working. What was the name of the old ripping software? "HQripper 7.0" - The number seven played a large role in the Fathers Day ARG.

- The reboot was supposed to end on July 7th (7/7), but the video ending the reboot was immediately taken down, presumably due to issues regarding the video's flashing lights. The reupload had an additional line from The Voice indicating that epileptic viewers might want to look away from the screen.
- Including the "Behind the Scenes" Mr. Rental video and the Bait-and-Switch final track, there were a total of 7 videos uploaded after the announcement of the channel's ending.
- There are a total of seven Greatest Hits Albums (one of which is in two parts), though two of them (2 and 5) were jokes.
- The King for Another Day takeover lasted 7 days, ending on 7/7.
- Artifact Domination: The Crown in King For Another Day, before the finals between DJ Professor K and Mariya Takeuchi, revealed that it was sentient and wanted the tournament to last forever, taking over Unregistered Hypercam 2 and turning him into Unrestrained Hypercam 2 in an attempt to achieve that goal.
- Ascended Extra: The Nutshack was only used in around one or two rips during the reboot, but after the reboot ended, the amount of rips using it raised significantly.
- Ascended Meme: The album SiIvaGunner Presents: Somewhat Responsive to Requests ~ Touhou Album Now! was born from fans requesting for a Touhou Project album, with both the album and the reveal referencing the "2hu album when/there will never be a touhou album" meme.
- Ass Shove: In "Main Theme (Remastered Version) - New Ghostbusters 2"
:Not Vinesauce Joel: And all of a sudden I find myself in a Haunted House, and I'm surrounded by 8-Bit Beasts! What the fuck? They're trying to shove a giant brick up my ass! Not good. And then I lie down in bed wiping my bloody butt... - A Wild Rapper Appears!: "Where The Hood At?" appears in the middle of "GO MY WAY!! (REM@STER-A)"
(which is a "Snow halation" mashup until then) before leaving shortly after. - Backstory Horror: SiIvaGunner himself is completely harmless Living Statue that just wants to create high quality rips, right? Well, no. According to this piece of lore
, SiIva is a Humanoid Abomination from space that once killed a completely innocent person just to steal his computer. - Bait-and-Switch: Every single "high quality rip" is actually this (except for a very small number of rips that are unedited). YouTube frowns on this behavior, which likely played a role in the original channel's termination. The channel description has only a small hint to the true nature of the channel, with the insertion of the statement "(All content is willingly submitted by a team of content creators.)" into what is otherwise GilvaSunner's description copied word-for-word. Notable examples within the rips themselves below.
- The Main Theme (Anniversary Edition) - Wii Shop Channel
rip does this three times over. For the first 53 seconds, the percussion solo from the intro loops, making the listener think it's a blue balls upload. Then the beat from "Hotline Bling" kicks in, making you think that he'll just do a joke that has been done before. And then — since the SiIvaGunner team can't actually use the real song without getting the video blocked for content — it turns out to be the Kidz Bop version of "Hotline Bling". - When SiIva uploaded three certain stage themes from Street Fighter II, the rips themselves were unedited. However, these three themes are for the characters whose names were famously switched around during localization, and rather than present them under their Japanesenote or Internationalnote names, SiIva assigned Boxer's theme to Vega, Claw's theme to M. Bison, and Dictator's theme to Balrog.
- The Intro
rip for Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game is actually the It's Man opening from the first episode of the show itself, except instead of segueing into the show's title sequence, it cuts to the very end of The Nutshack's title sequence instead (this, in conjuction with the nature of Monty Python's It's Man openings, refers to The Nutshack theme song's repeated exclamation of "IT'S THE NUTSHACK!"), followed by the Monty Python foot crushing the logo for the cartoon. - The rip
of "Holy Orders" is actually "Holy Orders?", the distorted version played when fighting Robo-Ky. - "Robo's Theme
" - Chrono Trigger plays about two seconds of the obvious joke before spectacularly steering off-course. The OST Version
sounds like it's about to do the same, only to play a completely different Rick Astley song (specifically "Together Forever"). - "Snowdin Town (Hard Mode)
- Undertale" plays like the original rip, complete with subtle "Snow halation"... and then "F**k Da Police" by the N.W.A. plays, and then 10 seconds later, "Snow halation"'s vocals play anyway. - "Flash Man Stage (Alternative Mix)
" opens on a "Death By Glamour" remix, until a certain guest crashes in and replaces the song with "Waluigi Pinball". - "Final Boss - 8-Bit Beast's Haunted House"
switches halfway through from an impressive Boss Remix to just the melody on a kazoo and silly vocal noises. - At the end of the SiIvaGunner: King for a Day Tournament event, a video titled "ONE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT...
" was uploaded on September 9th, 2018. Usually, any SiIvaGunner video with the word "announcement" in it is an indication that a new album had been released on SiIvaGunner's Bandcamp page. However, about seventeen seconds into the video, "John Notwoodman" appears to explain that the final videos of the tournament had to be delayed and that regular rips would resume shortly. The "STRINGS OF FATE
" album wouldn't see release until October 8th, at which point a more traditional announcement video was published
.- On the subject of King for a Day Tournament, during the period when the members of the roster were being announced, the sixteenth and final contender was seemingly teased
to be Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club!... but the following day, the teaser changed
to one for the real final character, Etika.
- On the subject of King for a Day Tournament, during the period when the members of the roster were being announced, the sixteenth and final contender was seemingly teased
- There were three fake reveals in King for Another Day:
- SpawnWave in this rip recapping the April SiIvaDirect
, which is a bit obvious since the moments leading up to it wasn't framed as a trailer. - Undertale's Sans in the Boss Battle Fusion Collab
, which was also a Call-Back to Sans declining his invitation in Papyrus's reveal trailer
. - But Mr. Bean in Troupple King’s Secret Song (Unused Version) - Shovel Knight
is the biggest one of all, since for a whole day until the direct, people were led to believe that he was going to compete, up until he was finally deconfirmed near the end, in which his spot was replaced by Law and Disorder.
- SpawnWave in this rip recapping the April SiIvaDirect
- The titles of the videos uploaded for April Fools' Day 2024 seem like they're Spoiler Titles for what the switch would be if they were uploaded on any other day, only for them to not actually describe the songs. For example, "Buddy Holly by Weezer but in the Mario 64 Soundfont
" is actually "Say It Ain't So".
- The Main Theme (Anniversary Edition) - Wii Shop Channel
- Bawdy Song: "Pumpkin Hill (OST Version)"
and, to a lesser extent, "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)"
replace much of the original lyrics with lewd homoerotic references. - Beach Episode: The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival (June 18-September 7, 2020), which encompassed a few special activities/sub-events. The channel banner changed to a beach, with each activity adding a new character to it, wearing appropriate "vacation" attire.
- Big Bad:
- The Voice Inside Your Head. In the Reboot storyline, he's the one behind the Continuity Reboot as he believes it will solve the community's Broken Base over "Snow halation"note . In the Christmas Comeback Crisis, he pulled a Hostile Show Takeover and wants to purge all anime despite it being the source for quite a few beloved Running Gags.
- Double Subverted with President Haltmann, the Corrupt Corporate Executive Big Bad of Kirby: Planet Robobot. He starts as The Dragon to The Voice, but eventually pulls a The Dog Bites Back and takes the SiIvaGunner channel for himself. Compared to The Voice, Haltmann's takeover is actually relatively beneficial for the channel, and he doesn't seem to do anything bad at first. But then, almost a year later it's revealed that he locked the Christmas Comeback Crisis in a sort of "Groundhog Day" Loop so he can profit from the channel indeinitely, which is a problem for anyone with a Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory such as Wood Man.
- Bilingual Bonus:
- The name of the album that's themed around Yoko Shimomura's compositions is "il settimo grande padre", literally meaning "The Seventh Grand Father" (AKA "7 Grand Dad") in Italian. Also from the same album is a remix of "Scherzo di Notte" ("Night Joke" in Italian) from Kingdom Hearts I that uses the Family Guy theme song, titled "Scherzo di Momenti Divertenti" ("Funny Moments Joke").
- In "Captain Murasa - Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object"
, the last 3 lines of the "log" popup are a Japanese translation of the "you just got beaned" text.
- Bittersweet Ending: The reboot arc ends with
Chad accepting the Voice's offer to merge the universes without "Snow halation".- In the true ending
, Chad manages to bring "Snow halation" back and defeat the Voice... at the cost of his own life. And as part of the ARG revealed, the real cause of the reboot is still out there.
- In the true ending
- Black Comedy: In spades depending on the rip. The Daft Punk tribute rips make light of the "Epilogue" video announcing their retirement, with the Guyman-Boyfriend blowing up when he loses (much like how Thomas blows up instead), and the following video "Thorns" opens with Thomas-Senpai properly getting destroyed when he loses.
- Bookends:
- The last rip before the announcement of the channel endingnote was of "Battle! (Wild Pokémon)", the same song that the first rip was of.
- One of the first rips to get popular was the rip of Super Mario 64's "Slider", which was a simple bait-and-switch into the Flintstones theme; it became one of the most re-ripped songs as a result. On the last day of continuous rips, the N64DD version
was uploaded as one of the last ones, and started the same way (albeit with Joel's infamous Grand Dad freakout overlayed onto it)... only for it to stop partway through to let just about every other running gag do their own rendition of it. - After uploading the "Title Theme - 7 GRAND DAD" Grand Finale rip (as it seemed at the time), SiIvaGunner's profile picture changed to GilvaSunner's original picture of Timmy Turner's dad from 2009.
- The first of DJ Professor K's songs released in King for a Day was "Artificial Amateurs", composed by Cryptik. The end of his journey and the last song of his takeover (both in broadcast and in release, at least before the Like a Dragon rip) is marked by "Blading These Streets", also composed by Cryptik.
- His takeover starts with him proudly announcing his radio station and his credentials from winning the tournament. His last appearance for the event has him do much the same, but since the day is technically over he hesitates when describing himself and switches to say he's reading the credits.
- One of the last rips to be released before Mario was Unpersoned in April Fools' Day was Goodnight Mario - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
, a short clip that features Mario being rolled by another Mario to fall off. In turn, one of the first rips after Mario was restored was Good Morning Mario - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
, which is the same clip played backwards. - The Shop Fusion Collab loops around to the first song in the mix (the Wii Shop theme), but since the Wii eShop has no mascot, its representative ends up being Drake, referencing the long-running joke of the Wii Shop theme being mashed with "Hotline Bling".
- Bootstrapped Leitmotif: Snow Halation tends to be associated with Nozomi thanks to Triple-Q having her featured in artwork of his Snow Halation mashups, and her role in the Christmas Comeback Crisis. Thing is, Snow Halation is officially centered around Honoka, as she sings the sole solo line in the song, and is in the center for the last third of the performance. This might have to do with an episode focusing on Nozomi being partially focused on the (in-universe) creation of the song (with an episode including a performance of the song following afterward), and how she appears in the center of the group formation for the first third.
- Breakout Character: The Nutshack and We Are Number One.
- The Nutshack, while originally introduced as an intentionally bad running gag to be the "villain" after the Reboot ended, proved popular enough both on and beyond the channel (mostly via "The Nutshack but..." videos) to be kept on as a regular meme on the channel, even being raised to one of the "holy trinity" alongside Grand Dad and Snow Halation.
- We Are Number One, meanwhile, was a deliberate attempt to create a running gag that would be popular amongst fans after the disastrous Green de la Bean gag. It worked far better than expected: the song became incredibly popular even outside the channel, with "We Are Number One but..." videos rapidly eclipsing their "The Nutshack but..." inspirations in popularity, enough so that when the GoFundMe for Stefán Karl Stefánsson'snote cancer treatment came to light, it was fully funded in a matter of hours. This earned mainstream media attention, and a thank you message from Stefán in which he - and the actors for the Rottens - sung "We Are Number One" live on stream; in addition, the audio stems for the song were released separately so that it would be easier for fans to "keep memeing". Despite all of that, We Are Number One, at the time, was only a minor meme, until the Christmas Comeback Crisis, when the usage of it skyrocketed, much like The Nutshack before it.
- Broken Record: A Running Gag that is often used on songs that have easily loopable measures. The track in question will have a singular part of it looped over and over again until the end of the rip, where it continues as normal just before the video ends.
- Brown Note: The bean robots in the Christmas Comeback Crisis are equipped with speakers that blast "BITCH YOU" and "BRRTESO" at people to disable them.
- The Bus Came Back:
- The Vocal Mix
of Wolf girl with you's Title Theme features the first true appearance of Loud Nigra since the reboot. - Despite "Snow halation" being erased during the merging of the universes in the Normal Ending
of the reboot, in the True Ending
, it makes its return. - Serval during the RE:SPH ARG:
- The BLACK Branch brings back Genocide Route Chad Warden after the
Reboot anniversary event, revealing how he destroy the world and implies that he is "the harbinger" The Voice Inside Your Head is referring to in the second Reboot ARG. - The PAINT Branch brings back Mr. Rental and Mr. Own, last seen in 2017. The same branch later brings back 2B after her serval cameos and appearance in The Life and Times of Wade L.D..
- The AIRTH Branch brings back the SiIva A.I. after CCC 11, revealing the A.I.'s perspective during 2017 to 2022. The same branch also revisits serval major events that took place in the SiIva A.I. Universe, especially the King For A Day Tournament, where the end of the branch reveals a website
that reveals the lore of the first tournament. Notably, the website also brings back Etika, who didn't appear in any KFAD-related events post 2018 save for a tribute track in King For Another Day due to his real life self experiencing mental health crisis in 2019 making his inclusion difficult without negatively affecting his well-being. - The FOOLS Branch marks the first appearance of Reader and Jerome since their appearances in Season 4.
- And finally, the end of the ARG reveals the person Susie Haltmann is looking for: Wood Man, who disappeared at the end of Season 6.
- The BLACK Branch brings back Genocide Route Chad Warden after the
- The Vocal Mix
- Bus Crash: After several weeks of absence, Mr. Rental eventually made a return in Slider - Super Mario 64DD
, where he is presumably killed during a standoff with the police. - Butt-Monkey: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-related rips are often Stylistic Suck (most obvious with the Bloody Stream rips); this got increasingly prevalent as the first season went on, culminating with an entire album full of Stylistic Suck rips as a jab at the people who wanted them. Notably, JoJo songs that are remixed but are under a different series' title (usually with Pokémon games) have been known to be consistently good. Songs that are actually under the series' name (such as from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven), however, are usually bad on purpose. This died down after the first season.
- Call-Back:
- "Final Boss (Phase 2)
" from Splatoon 1 incorporates the channel's previous rip of "sans." as it fades out. - After the reboot, a few of his older, more famous Flintstones remixes (i.e. Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire's battle theme, Kokiri Forest, and the Splatfest theme) got paralleling Simpsons remixes.
- The "Remastered" version
of "donacdum" from PAYDAY 2 is actually a reboot version of the original video
(NBGMusic's "donacdad"
), with Joel's voice samples replaced with AlWikowonkavitz
doing a Joel impression.
- The "Remastered" version
- The rip of Bowser's Theme
from Super Mario 64 is one of the few pre-reboot rips to feature the Theme Tune for The Simpsons (one of the main Running Gags of the reboot). During the reboot, the Beta Mix
of the same song was released, now featuring the theme tune for The Flintstones instead. - The High Quality Reboot began with "Snow halation"
, which features Windows crashing and rebooting, cutting off right before the welcome screen. One of the videos that marked the fake end of the reboot is Start-Up Opening
, which incorporates the Windows 98 startup sound. - Before the reboot, a rip of the 3DS Mii Maker theme
is actually an amature video of someone trying to make a Peter Griffin Mii, only to end up creating a Fred Flintstone one. Towards the end of the reboot, a similar Mii Channel rip
was made that flips the premise. - The Nintendo Direct 9.1.2016
video is one to the Sony E3 Conference 2016
video, in that they both feature remixed clips of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Will freaks out over his missing video games, and they both end with In Memoriam segments (the original video for the lack of PlayStation Vita announcements, the later video for Wii U losing its exclusivity to Nintendo 3DS). - Stagg Street Arrangements includes a bonus cover of "Everyday Goodbyes" by "Bob Dylan", referencing the earlier album dedicated to him.
- This rip of Dogbass
from Undertale contains the melody of Dogbass merged into the Seinfeld theme as well as some other sound effects and parts of songs from the game like the Temmie Village chirps and music. It got quite popular for SiIvaGunner standards, with over 100,000 views. This rip was referenced in Main Theme (Short Version) - Deluxe Seinfeld Scene It? The DVD Game
, where the concept was practically reversed. - During April Fools Day 2021 (which was themed around Mario being unpersoned from his own franchise in reference to various products related to
his 35th anniversary being withdrawn from sale after March 31st), we have the unexpected return of Gangster Mario
(whom the channel previously dedicated MAR10 2020 to). He ends up getting killed again 13 seconds into the rip, after which his ghost rants about the poor treatment the channel has given him since his first death, referencing the King For Another Day tournament (in which he appears in the side materials as a janitor) and DJ Professor K's subsequent takeover. - BIG SHOT (Alternate Route)
from Deltarune fittingly contains one during the original song's own Call-Back - during the reprise of The World Revolving, sources that the latter song ripped were used, such as the Space Jam theme and 'We Are Number One.
- "Final Boss (Phase 2)
- Cerebus Syndrome: The Continuity Reboot led to several darker, Sensory Abuse-laden rips - as well as the development of an actual story that ultimately ends with the reveal of an unseen higher power, the merging of two universes, and the seeming death of Chad Warren and the Voice Inside Your Head.
- Cliffhanger: The OST version rip
of "Sins of the Father" was uploaded on the day the parallel universe storyline was supposed to officially come to an end. The last seven seconds of the rip has the video glitching out and cutting to black, with the last thing heard being a familiar voice saying "Let's check it out." - Closing Credits: "Curtain Call"
from Mother 3 acts as this for the entire channel, crediting every single contributor by name. - Coconut Meets Cranium: CG! Coconut gun!

- Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The Halloween 2024 event mostly consisted of Mothman throwing a party with a bunch of cryptids as silly shenanigans proceeded to ensure. However, there was one unexpectedly dark moment in Mothman's posting, where the aliens attending end up overdosing on Galaxy Gas (a real brand of recreational nitrous oxide) and one of them (named Floob) dies from doing so. In the chaos, Mothman starts legitimately panicking right before he finds out Floob is dead.
- Compressed Adaptation: The album release
of Super Mario 64's "Cave Dungeon (Extended Mix)" retains the Jellyfish Jam ending, but the twelve
hour
buildup was replaced with the song's original intro. - Composite Character: In-Universe. Figments (beings formed from concentrated ideas and motifs) are by definition influenced by all iterations of a character in the public eye, rather than solely any one version. For example, Grand Dad's reference points (in order of importance) are the Mario Palette Swap on the title screen of 7 Grand Dad, the Head Swap from the actual gameplay, the semantically seperate but obviously related character Fortran, and finally regular Mario and Fred Flintstone. This is also a plot point, as Dr. Andonuts is aware of his sources and does not like how one of them contrasts so much with the rest of him. Two of the Guilts in his Magicant also take the form of two of his sources.
- Content Warnings:
- "Stage 1-4 Intro - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine"
opens with a warning: "This rip contains images of beans that some viewers may find uncomfortable. If you become irritated or start acting irrationally, immediately stop viewing and consult a doctor." This was an early remake of one of the deleted Green de la Bean rips, and it still features the character but without the Sensory Abuse that originally accompanied it. - The SiIva Direct videos begin with parodies of the ESRB content rating splash. The 8.29.2023 edition is supposedly rated F (F**kballs) by the AVGN, while the 6.4.2024 edition is rated e because "It's One of the Most Important, Famous Mathematical Constants".
- SiIvaGunner: 7 Fact Extravaganza
opens with the cryptic warning "MAY CONTAIN CONTENT".
- "Stage 1-4 Intro - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine"
- Continuity Cavalcade: The RE:SPH ARG is flooded with continuity, with many nods and continuations to previous events and storylines such as SiIvaGunner: Rebooted, King For a Day and even the Mr. Rental saga.
- Continuity Reboot:
- It began on June 17th, 2016, when this
"Snow halation" video featured the channel "crashing" ala Microsoft Windows. Immediately after, many changes became apparent.- The channel icon changed to an odd, anaglyphic version of the normal one.
- The channel's banner became bereft of Grand Dad and company (Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, and Haruka Amami eventually took their place).
- His Twitter name had "*reboot*" appended to it.
- "Please read the channel description" and "I only upload high quality video game rips" became "Read the channel description, please" and "I upload high quality video game rips only".
- The main Running Gag of the channel went from being The Flintstones to The Simpsons and Family Guy.
- The reboot ended on July 8th, 2016, when the Voice Inside Your Head's Merged Reality proposal is accepted by Chad Warden, and all the aforementioned changes have reverted to what they were before, with the exception of the channel icon (which became an unaltered photo of the statue of Antinous, the source of the real GilvaSunner's icon) and banner (in which Homer, Peter, and Haruka were gone and Grand Dad was back in the lighthouse, but Nozomi and Loud Nigra were still absent). 24 hours later, Chad brings back Snow Halation himself, and all of the changes are completely reverted, for good (though it took nearly two weeks for Homer, Peter, and Haruka to be added back into the lighthouse to reflect the new status quo).
- It began on June 17th, 2016, when this
- Couch Gag: The line below the credits for the source track and playlist directing viewers to "please read the channel description" has been modified during many a channel event, though individual rips don't normally get unique variant lines.
- Cover Version: "6 PM - Animal Crossing"
is a rendition of "Simoon" by Yellow Magic Orchestra. - The Cover Changes the Meaning: Well, the Remix changes the meaning, but the KFAD song, "Thank You, Everybody!" is a mashup of Fragile by Tatsuro Yamashita and "Thank You" by Tyler, the Creator (which happened to sample from the song the previous song). While "Fragile" originally was a sweet song about the singer thanking their lover for how they improved their life, while "Thank You" turned the meaning into the singer thanking their lover but saying that they also broke their heart, "Thank You, Everybody!" uses both songs to create a song that has the singer thanking the listener, especially if you put in the context of the song in the tournament, being one of the last songs to be released before the winner was announced.
- Creepy Circus Music: "Mad Jack Battle (Beta Mix)
" combines the frantic brass and strings of Mad Jack's battle theme with the equally frantic melody of "The World Revolving." Mad Jack's creepy laugh is heard multiple times throughout the video to add to the effect. - Crown of Power: The crown in the "King for Another Day Tournament" video possesses Unregistered Hypercam 2 near the end of the tournament to turn the wearer into Unrestrained Hypercam 2.
- Cultural Cross-Reference: The channel frequently throws jokes in some rips that only foreigners may understand, especially Brazilian ones.
In around September 6th to September 7th, the channel celebrated the Independence Day of Brazil in 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024. - Curb-Stomp Battle: From the first tournament, the biggest landslide was Reggie Fils-Aimé vs. Thanos 75.4%-24.6% in Reggie's favor. The second tournament somehow managed to top it with the biggest landslide in both tournaments with MissingNo. vs. HOBaRT 78.1%-21.9% in MissingNo.'s favor.
- Darker and Edgier:
- Rips on the Flustered Fernando
side-channel lean heavily in this direction, as the entire point of the channel was to upload/re-upload rips that couldn't be left on the main channel for fear of alienating viewers and being flagged. These include all of the bean rips, all of the 9/11 rips, a series of rips "celebrating" the 10-year anniversary of the Michael Richards Laugh Factory incident, the infamous Pupa scene, and an unaltered, HD version of the I Love Egg song. - Within the channel itself, the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival in 2022 managed to be this compared to the other All-Star Festivals with themes of finality and the apocalypse, and even contains a storyline which reveals that the world is plunged into the titular nuclear winter caused by an unknown meteorite. The event culminates with the permanent shutdown of the SiIva A.I. and Wood Man leaving the channel, breaking the status quo.
- Rips on the Flustered Fernando
- A Day in the Limelight: Every so often, the channel will upload a lot of rips focusing on one joke or source, usually on a relevant anniversary or date; see MeaningfulReleaseDate.Si Iva Gunner.
- Deader than Dead: In the King for a Day tournament, Ajit Pai is treated as this after losing to Thanos, who inflicted Cessation of Existence on Pai's stock icon in his victory screen. Pai doesn't even show up for the final character shot.
- Death Montage: "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story
" features a montage of Reader and Jerome devising several unique methods to kill Naxx Guyfieri, who they incorrectly believe is attempting to harm them, after he comes back every 3 days after his previous death. - Department of Redundancy Department:
- The album title for "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)
- Sonic Adventure" is "Knuckles from K.N.U.C.K.L.E.S. & Knuckles: Knuckles in Knuckles the Echidna feat. Knuckles from the Knuckles the Echidna Series [Knuckles of the Year Edition] & Knuckles (Full Version & Knuckles)." - While it was usually avoided in the earlier seasons, due to the limited amount of realistic versions a video game track is likely to have, ones that get ripped several times (but not to the point where the channel gives up naming them realistically at all) will tend to use reworded versions of the same thing, e.g. having one rip titled Beta Mix and another title Beta Version. "Game With Rabbit" from Othello World is probably the worst offender, with it recieving 9 rips subtitled with some varation of Beta before finally getting another subtitle.
- The album title for "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)
- Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Main Theme - Sony E3 Conference 2016
and Main Theme - Nintendo Direct 9.1.2016
both use the same clip of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with Will's dialogue edited to ask "Where the Vita games?"/"Where the Wii U games?" A memorial for the console then appears (complete with somber Undertale music), but in the latter rip, SiIvaGunner faintly says "Wait a second, didn't we already make this joke before?" - Double Subversion:
- The Demo, Alpha Mix, Original Mix, Alternate Mix, Unused, and Unused Demo versions of Grand Metropolis are this. The April Fools' Day videos were originally this too, but were renamed to Bait-and-Switch titles indicating them as "APRIL FOOL'S REMIXES" the day after.
- K.K. Cruisin'
from the Gurando no Mori album is just a genuine jazz cover of the original song, with no twists. - Fossil Falls - Super Mario Odyssey
was also a genuine jazz cover with no twists.- Play a Mini-Game!
is also just a jazz cover with no other twists.
- Play a Mini-Game!
- The Dragon: Woodman works for the voice, and keeping the Voice alive is why he hijacked the channel.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The earliest videos had the image change to match the joke when the ruse was revealed (i.e. showing Grand Dad when the Flintstones theme kicked in, which can be seen here
). SiivaGunner has re-uploaded some of them, but they now have a constant image throughout. One later rip which does this as a deliberate throwback is "Lost Woods (Complete Version) - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"
. - The Super Mario World rip of "The Evil King Bowser"
features SiIvaGunner speaking, but his voice was provided by Microsoft Sam, rather than VoiceForge's Wiseguy.
- The earliest videos had the image change to match the joke when the ruse was revealed (i.e. showing Grand Dad when the Flintstones theme kicked in, which can be seen here
- Easter Egg:
- Certain rips begin to incorporate another song as they fade out. "The Grand Finale - Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story"
, for example, incorporates a bit of "Megalovania" mere seconds before the video ends. "Tutorial - Friday Nght Funkin'"
does the same thing, only soundlessly. - Other videos have abnormal descriptions. For example, 25M from Donkey Kong (1981) changes "Please read the channel description" into "HOW MUCH OF THE CHANNEL DESCRIPTION CAN YOU READ?", and SUPERHOT
has the description almost entirely full of the word "SUPERHOT". - The description of each "Snow Halation" upload contains a quote from a member of μ's.
- "Green Hill Zone (REVXB) - Sonic the Hedgehog"
has the video very briefly zooming out to show a sprite animation mimicking a sequence from what the rip is referencing. It's very easy to miss for listeners that aren't paying attention to the video itself.
- Certain rips begin to incorporate another song as they fade out. "The Grand Finale - Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story"
- Either/Or Title: The 2024 ARG is referred to by two titles, according to "The Meeting": The Susie ARG (its main title, albeit spoilery) or the RE:SPH ARG.
- The Elevator from Ipanema: "The Smol from Tokyo,"
which accompanies the elevator ride to Floor 77 in CCC Episode 11, is a remix of "The Girl from Ipanema." (The vocals are taken from "5PM (OST Version)"
from Animal Crossing: New Leaf, one of several SiIvaGunner rips based on this tune.) - The Ending Changes Everything: Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game
reveals that the Mr. Rental seen in the main Mr. Rental rips was actually an Evil Twin, Mr. Own
, while the Mr. Rental seen in the Looney Tunes title theme rips was the real one, who was Good All Along. - End-of-Series Awareness: "Staff Credits"
from Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (posted the day before the channel's end) says "Finally, the time has come, it's the last r-r-rip with a Coconut Gun." - Exact Words: Some uploads will give you what the song's title describes.
- "We Love Burning Town
". It's a burning town. - "All at Once"
is apparently every single rip and/or meme from SiIva's channel up to that point. - The high quality rip of the song "End of the World", from Kingdom Hearts I, indeed features a song named "End of the World". However, the song in the video
is actually the finale version of the second opening theme of the 2014 anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. - Silence
from F-Zero. Until the end, that is. - This rip
of "Against the Black Knight" is actually a rip of the battle theme of another Black Knight. The inverse is done in this rip
of "The Defender (Black Knight Battle)". - High Drop
from Killzone 2 is actually a skit where one of the soldiers does drop from a great height. - "Launch Base Zone (Act 1)
" from Sonic 3 & Knuckles is really a Genesis remix of the Sonic & Knuckles Collection version's theme. - "Three Minutes Clapping
" from The World Ends with You is literally that. - The "Original Mix"
of "It's Showtime!" from Undertale is quite literally the song "Showtime" from Homestuck. (Fitting enough since its developer, Toby Fox, created numerous songs for the webcomic.) - "Dream Land
" from Lotus Land Story is a remix of "Gourmet Race", or in other words, "Dream Land" from Super Smash Bros. 64. - Gallery
from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven features a literal gallery... ...Of Angry Joe pictures, set to a remix of Roundabout. - "Metal Scratchin' (Blazy Mix)
" from Sonic Rush is literally just the sounds of metal scratching against metal. - "Theme of Friends
" from Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is "I'll Be There For You". In other words, it is indeed the Theme of Friends. - "A Few Musical Notes from Game Developer Toby Fox
" plays the first four notes of "Megalovania". So the rip delivers exactly what was promised: a few notes from a song done by Toby Fox. - Inverted with "Silencio
" from OFF, which consists entirely of loud noises. - On April 23rd, 2022, the channel posted a countdown for a video titled "The Fusion Collab Everyone's Been Waiting For". It turned out to be a fusion collab based on the YouTube Premiere waiting room countdown music
.
- "We Love Burning Town
- Evil Overlooker: On July 21st, 2016, fans have noticed the YouTube channel art was updated to feature a very, very faint image of the head of Tito Dick (one of the stars of the infamous cartoon show The Nutshack, the theme song of which having risen to prominence in the channels video game rips since the end of the reboot). Since then, Dick's head had become a bit clearer. Throughout the month of August 2016, Tito Dick's opacity would fluctuate randomly ranging from almost invisible, to very visible, until the tower disappeared at the end of the month.
- Fade to Black: The merging of the universes ends with a clip of Honoka from the music video for "Snow halation" fading away.
- Fandom Nod: Deliberately invoked in the lore. The team is very aware what the fans think of each Running Gag. For example, the reboot was caused by the SiIvaGunner fandom's extreme hate towards "Snow halation", represented by the channel crashing because of a problem with the file "HALATION.SYS" which was caused by "COMMUNITY_DISCOURSE". During later videos, The Voice Inside Your Head makes nods to the various shenanigans that occurred throughout the reboot videos' comment sections, such as the "Dedede Squad". The Christmas Comeback Crisis videos go even further with this, for example turning Green de la Bean, a meme the fans absolutely hated, into an antagonist.
- Fake-Out Fade-Out: The "Treasure Chest Open"
rip from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword employs this. - Fake-Out Opening:
- Some videos start out as being presented as just a still image of the game's title (just like the majority of the rips), only to switch over to an actual video at one (often early) point.
- The "Be Cool, Be Wild, and Be Groovy"
rip from Sonic Adventure appears to be yet another "Snow halation" mashup, only for Dr. Eggman to put an abrupt end to it. The real mashup is of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet, with interjections from Eggman and Big the Cat. This was later followed up with the 20th Anniversary version
, in which Eggman references the original and allows Snow halation to proceed. It ends, however, with Jack dedicating the video to Tito Dick, followed by The Nutshack theme playing over a panicking Eggman.
- Fictional Video Game: Rarely there has been rips of non-existent games including Zeno Blade Chronicle X
, a pirate version of Xenoblade Chronicles X and Half-Zombie in the Steel Stronghold
, which has only one song for it.- The 2025 April Fool's event is entirely focused around in-universe video games.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing:
- In CCC Episode 11, the music
that plays when Nozomi fights the SiIva A.I. quotes "Ash and Dust", an ambient track from the album of the All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival. As the end of the event is implied to be when The A.I. shuts down, it's no surprise that the song
that plays over the second half quotes "Goodbye to a World", a song whose fusion collab in the event ends with his shutdown sequence just like the end of the fight. - The last song uploaded before the start of the Gegagedigedagidago event was "A Long Time Ago... - Robotrek", which matches with the lyrics of the meme's associated song, "Cotton Eye Joe" ("If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe/I'd been married a long time ago").
- In CCC Episode 11, the music
- Forced Meme:
- According to Chad Warden
, The Flintstones theme was one from the beginning, and this
poorly-made description of the meme's origin supports his claim. - "Snow halation." The vast majority of other Running Gags originate from places other than the channel, but "Snow halation" as a meme originates entirely from being prominent contributor Triple-Q's favorite song from Love Live! and pushing it alongside the other prominent running gags.
- The theme song to The Nutshack, after being featured in the ARG, has been introduced as another forced meme. It has been received relatively better than "Snow Halation", although some still don't like the effort of trying to meme something else.
- According to Chad Warden
- Foreshadowing:
- The Mii Maker rip (a video of someone searching for a Peter Griffin Mii tutorial, and subsequently making one of Fred Flintstone) rather eerily parallels the Continuity Reboot.
- There are two main clues concerning The Reveal that the Serial Killer Mr. Rental from his own rips is a different person than the Nice Guy Mr. Rental from the Looney Tunes rips: a moment where the former, actually Mr. Own, buys a phone, and the fact that their car is crudely rendered in MS Paint (sticking out like a sore thumb in the generally angular art style used in the Looney Tunes rips).
- An image included with ''Volume 7'' depicts an upside-down triangle with a small purple circle in the center.
◊ Wood Man's final farewell on Twitter
has a portrait of someone with that same triangle for a head in the upper-left. The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis reveals that person to be the physical form of the Voice Inside Your Head. - What about the sudden mass liking of Minecraft things, only for Inspector Gadget to take over 7 months later?
- During 2024's Spirit Week event, Twin Day was represented by a picture of two Joke-Explainer™ 7000s. The RE:SPH ARG revealed that Dr. Andonuts had built a replica of the Joke-Explainer™, which was the one that was transported to the A.I. universe and experienced the 2019 Halloween event and the All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- The music notes that appear in Music Maker 1
before being erased are actually the first few notes of (what else?) The Flintstones theme. - "Pursuit ~ Cornered (Beta Mix) - Gyakuten Saiban"
, "Theme of Blanka -SSFIV Arrange- - Super Street Fighter IV"
and "Main Theme (Beta Mix) - Pepsiman"
have Green de la Bean appear in just one frame each. These are among the few Bean rips from September 2016 not to have been purged from the channel within a few days due to fan backlash against the Sensory Abuse.
- The music notes that appear in Music Maker 1
- Fully Automatic Clip Show: "...of 2017 (Beta Mix)"
and "MEGALOVANIA (Chex Mix) (Beta Mix) - Undertale"
, both uploaded during the 2023 April Fools' Day event, are remixes of announcement videos mostly edited down to Chaze the Chat saying "uhm" repeatedly. - Gag Censor:
- In the album art for Volume 3 & Knigra, GilvaSunner's avatar is covered by the Fred Flintstone star and Loud Nigra is covered by the GilvaSunner Seal of Quality.
- This rip
of "Skydeck a Go!Go!" (a mashup with "Bonfire" by Childish Gambino) censors all of the latter song's obscenities with various Sonic sound effects. - The rip
of "Beloved Tomboyish Girl" features the infamous "Russian Dongcopter" video and uses Tito Dick's head as a censor. - The YouTube
and "SFW
" Newgrounds versions of "This announcement is not on YouTube." (AKA "7 GRAND AWESOME"), a video which goes through the plot of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy and ends with the Great Gazoo spinning his meat for thirty seconds, censors the meatspin with a black censor bar reading "V E R Y CENSORED[.] Seriously, you don't wanna see this." Completely averted in the NSFW Newgrounds version, where "the Great Gazoo's Great Gherkin" is visible for all to see.
- A Glitch in the Matrix: The OST Version
of Sonic the Hedgehog 2's 2-Player Emerald Hill Zone theme uses this knockoff
of the Super Mario Bros. 1 Theme Tune, playing into the "Mario Dies After March 31st 2021" event that was going on at the time. After the first loop, the real SMB theme periodically starts playing instead, only for the audio to immediately glitch out for a split second before resuming with the knockoff. - Gone Horribly Wrong: The SiIva Direct stream for July 11th, 2016. SiIvaGunner hypes up a brand new high quality rip, only for it to end up being delayed. He then tries to make up for it by playing footage of a live concert performance of "Snow Halation", but this causes the entire stream to be blocked by Lantis, the record label of the Love Live franchise.
- Grandfather Clause:
- The Flintstones (no pun intended). The theme appeared in SiIvaGunner's debut video and went on to be the channel's most frequent recurring joke ever, but it has been met with virtually no resistance from the fans or the team even after several years. The Flintstones has pretty much become synonymous with the channel, so it understandably continues to appear in rips. Sometimes it's treated as an Obligatory Joke, but not enough to discredit it. This also applies to "Snow halation", to a lesser extent.
- While the channel aims to mimic the actual GilvaSunner channel with its video metadata, some of the older rips on the channel were inaccurate to GilvaSunner's uploads. Most of these were later fixed in 2017, by way of renames, description changes, and custom thumbnails in the case of a wrong image, but a few innacuracies have been kept - Super Mario 64's "Slider" being listed incorrectly as "Slide" by the real GilvaSunner is one example of a mistake that SiIvaGunner doesn't bother replicating, since "Slider" has one of the most iconic rips and is one of the most re-ripped songs on the entire channel.
- Grand Finale: What was the finale of Season 1 is originally going to be.
- "A Grand New Era ~Ending~
" is this to the reboot storyline. However, after completing an additional ARG, the fans achieved the True Ending of the reboot
, where instead of resigning to "Snow halation"'s fate, Chad fights back against the Voice Inside Your Head, stating that SiIvaGunner does not make rips for the fans, but rather out of love. Using this love and the MF Like Button, Chad vanquishes The Voice Inside Your Head and saves "Snow halation". - On October 1st, 2016, "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel
" was uploaded. The man shown in the video is Chaze the Chat, SiIva himself, announcing the end of uploads on the channel. He also stated there are two more rips to be uploaded (will be noted when uploaded).- The collection of "Ending" and "Credits" rips leading up October 1st also count, most notably "File Select Fusion
", which featured a collaboration with Joel, and "Battle! (Wild Pokémon) (High Quality) - Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire
", a version of the original channel's first rip updated to include the channel's more recent memes.
- The collection of "Ending" and "Credits" rips leading up October 1st also count, most notably "File Select Fusion
- Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD
.
- "A Grand New Era ~Ending~
- G-Rated Sex: Played for Laughs in "Dating Fight! - Undertale"
and "Coffee Break Music - Ms. Pac-Man"
, both of which are soundfont/chiptune arrangements of George Michael's "Careless Whisper" accompanying vaguely erotic Voice Grunting noises. - Gratuitous Russian: The "ДА" and "НЕТ" buttons in the rips of "Puzzle Room (Rhythm Code)" from Kirby: Planet Robobot, both the mercifully deleted original and the various remakes/alternate versions, being a Shout-Out to the continue screen of a Russian bootleg version of Felix the Cat and a Vinesauce clip reacting to it and the disturbing "ИГРА ОКОНЧЕНА" screen that followed it. The channel also has a rip titled "нет головоломки?"translation, which is based on a "Puzzle Room" fan remix with the same title.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Had one on Groundhog Day 2017.
- The Christmas Comeback Crisis's timeline is also described as this by Wood Man in the side story, although it's not perfect, and has "trapped the "real real world" in it", explaining why memes/figments from 2017 & 2018 have proliferated. Only Wood Man is aware of this loop, though. In his words, "It feels like we're moving forward, but at the same time... we're not moving at all."
- Gruesome Goat: A few of the rips in early 2020 will feature a Jump Scare by a taxidermized baby goat referred to as the "Playboi Carti Standing Goat".
- Guest Star: There's been times when other YouTubers submitted their own rips to the channel. However, like all the other rippers, they go uncredited.
- LarryInc64, another video game music channel, made Buy Somethin' Will Ya! (Beta Mix)
. He would later make more rips and become part of the channel's team. - Aztrosist helped in advertising Grand Dad 64
. - GilvaSunner (the real one) participated in an April Fools' Day joke by uploading Final Destination
to his channel. He kindly credits a fraction of the team in the description.- In 2017, the two channels swapped upload schedules with eachother (the channels' content still remained the same though).
- RelaxAlax made a Self-Parody of his Know Your Moves series for the channel in, fittingly enough, a Smash Bros. rip
. - Charles Martinet reprised his role as Mario for It's a me, Mario!

- Live and Learn (Live Version)
features Jun Senoue being shown a certain famous rip
(and having a good laugh over it). - The Living Tombstone did a joke remix
of his famous Five Nights at Freddy's song, and submitted it to the channel. He later did the same with his Five Nights at Freddy's 4
song.
- LarryInc64, another video game music channel, made Buy Somethin' Will Ya! (Beta Mix)
- Happy Birthday to You!:
- This video
implements the melody into "His Theme", referencing Undertale's one year anniversary. - "Circus (Birthday Mix)"
pitch-shifts "Crank That" to match the song, as it was made for Soulja Boy's birthday.
- This video
- Happy Ending Override: The Christmas Comeback Crisis reveals that due to The Voice being a Figment/human hybrid, he was able to survive Chad's MF Like Button by using Wood Man to keep the idea of The Voice alive, thus preserving him as a Figment. He then created a program to bring Figments into the real world, and used it to bring himself and the other Figments alive so he could take over the world.
- Heroic Sacrifice: It's heavily implied that Chad died after using the MF Like Button to destroy The Voice and restore Snow Halation.note
- He's Back!:
- The very first rip uploaded after Mario being Ret-Gone was undone during the April Fools' 2021 event is Mario saying
, "It's-a me, bitch!" - SiIvaGunner himself finally woke up in the Christmas Comeback Crisis episode "One Last Chance".
- The very first rip uploaded after Mario being Ret-Gone was undone during the April Fools' 2021 event is Mario saying
- Homage:
- Christmas Comeback Crisis is one to Kirby: Planet Robobot - its plot is relatively the same (an outside force turning a once-natural land into a purely mechanical one, and a small, cute hero(ine) putting an end to it), and the former's videos always cull music from the latter (most notably the prologue
, an homage to the game's intro). Also, the latter game's Big Bad makes a few appearances, and his leitmotif turns up far more frequently in the Christmas rips. - For the second Cartoon Network Day/[adult swim] night, the penultimate rip was a straight on recreation of the tone and humor of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
- Christmas Comeback Crisis is one to Kirby: Planet Robobot - its plot is relatively the same (an outside force turning a once-natural land into a purely mechanical one, and a small, cute hero(ine) putting an end to it), and the former's videos always cull music from the latter (most notably the prologue
- Hostile Show Takeover:
- Wood Man took over the channel after the Halloween special ended; however, all he did was shitpost on Twitter before leaving to fight Mega Man.
- A straighter example is the Voice Inside Your Head returning; he's the Arc Villain of the Christmas special and makes his motives apparent in the channel and video descriptions.
- House Pseudonym: In the album releases, artists who wanted to remain uncredited are given the name "Barney Rubble". For GSHQVGR Vol. FOUR HOURS!, the house pseudonym was changed to "Principal Seymour Skinner" due to the album being a compilation of reboot songs. On other albums, uncredited artists are similarly given names related to the album's focus.
- Human Popsicle: This is apparently the explanation for Dat Boi's (a quintessentially 2016 meme) brief channel takeover in 2020, with the rip Game Over - Dat Boi
indicating that he was cryogenically preserved in an attempt to bring old memes into the future. The former rip, which serves as the Bad End for the takeover, has Dat Boi suffering from atrophy and hypothermia as a result of him being incompatible in 2020, culminating in his long and painful death. However, the True Ending
rip ends with Dat Boi cycling to the tune of "Snow halation" sung by the voice synthesizer Daniel (UK). - Hypocrite:
- In this video
, The Voice Inside Your Head proposes the option of merging the Pre-Reboot and Post-Reboot universes without "Snow halation", claiming that while The Flintstones Theme Tune is beloved and fits in well to any song, "Snow Halation" has caused too much discourse among SiIvaGunner's fans due to being "weeb shit" (among other things). A few days later, a rip of video was uploaded
featuring the Voice's cover of "GO MY WAY!!". It even opens with the Voice giving a short speech thanking the fans for ensuring that there would be no more idol music on the channel. - The Naxx Guyfieri and Doge Mayer commercial has them spout off about how much they love all their fans and are willing to contact the next 100 that call in, but then they specify that they only want female fans and "no ugly chicks".
- In this video
- Idiosyncratic Cover Art:
- Out of the first ten albums, eight of themnote had covers directly parodying the 7 Grand Dad title screen and/or featuring a character relevant to the album in Grand Dad's jumping pose. After Volume FOUR HOURS! this was mostly dropped, CD Grand Beta from the Season 1 finale being the last album to do this (not counting the bonus image labeled as "alternate" cover art in SUPER GANGSTA BROS. MIXTAPE).
- Simultaneously released albums, especially the double-released albums, typically have covers that compliment each other:
- The Rips of Christmas albums have covers showing a simplistic doodle of a character important to the channel against a single-color background: Past had President Haltmann on the cover, Future featured Wood Man, and Present had Smol Nozomi.
- The volumes for Wii U & for Nintendo 3DS are respectively based on the front and back covers of their collective namesake's A Smashing Soundtrack compilation.
- Volume C and Volume D are based on the covers of albums that released close to each other at the time, CERTIFIED LOVER BOY and Donda.
- Volume FF and Volume DQ parody the Japanese covers of the first Final Fantasy I and Dragon Quest I, Square Enix's trademark RPGs.
- Volume Ruby and Volume Sapphire have cover art parodying the games that started it all, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, complete with "box legendaries" riffing on Grand Dad and Smol Nozomi.
- The QUALITY ACHIEVED albums depict a different format of music storage against a solid color background: MAXIMUM used a cassette tape, ULTIMATE used a CD, and LIMITLESS used a flash drive.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming:
- The Highest Quality Rips albums that are lettered rather than numbered take their letter from what is being parodied on the album's cover. Volume V, for example, parodies the art of Cyberpunk 2077 due to sharing a name with the game's protagonist. Even volume, which has no letter attached, still parodies the naming conventions of the Canadian store brand No Name.
- The album name of "Tutorial (Part 1) - π" follows the titling scheme of the TimmyTurnersGrandDad rip it is parodying, along with arrangements of it on its own channel ("My [X] rip: the [Y] length is the joke").
- All songs directly relating to the SiIva A.I.'s fight in the SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis have "Quality" in their name: "Quality Assurance" and "Quality Insurance" (from Episode 11) and "Quality Loss" (from his pre-mortem AI Log). A parody of "Quality Assurance" made for "Golden Ratio - e", called "Continuous Quality Interest" on its album, keeps the naming scheme.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Once, after fans sniffed out a "low quality rip", SiIva congratulated the fans on finding it in the comments of another video of his. This exchange resulted:kaabiimaster: i thought you only uploaded high quality rips
SiIvaGunner: I only upload high quality video game rips. - The Immodest Orgasm: The sound of "Loud Nigra"
, which is used as a Running Gag on the channel, is essentially an Exaggerated example of this trope to the absolute extreme. - In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Parodied Trope in the rips "Billie Jean (OST Version) - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker" and "Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal but it's Undertale", which both turn Michael Jackson's Moonwalker into "Michael Jackson's Undertale".
- Inconsistent Spelling: How is SiIvaGunner's name supposed to be spelled/pronounced? The channel seems to deliberately waver on the subject, referring to the channel and character as both "SiIvaGunner" (with a second i) and "SilvaGunner" (with an L). The Greatest Hits Albums used an L up to the 8th volume, then switched to an I. SilvaGunner: Rebooted and The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis use an L, but then for the King for a Day series and CCC side stories since 2019, it's an i (but even those CCC episodes are then referred to with an L in one
video's description). In-Universe, The Voice Inside Your Head always refers to it with an L, while Chad Warden says "SEE-vuh-gonn-NAHH" and the King for Another Day Tournament MOJO!! website has all characters using a second i, except for Unregistered HyperCam 2 who sometimes uses an L. This list goes on. - Incredibly Long Note:
- Prologue (Castle Gate)
from Castlevania I. - Live and OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

- Elec Man
's theme
has one that lasts 10 seconds... and the rest of the video is just the beat and triangle wave. - His World
from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), with added Loud Nigra, Magic Missiles, and the Spoken Wikipedia Project article on "Cock and Ball Torture". - Game Over
from Sega Rally has one that lasts 36 minutes. At 17:36 you can hear a voice whispering "grand dad", and at 23:27 you can hear a door knock three times. - Uncontrollable
from Xenoblade Chronicles X has one that starts at 1:09 which then changes to the Flintstones theme at 2:09. This repeats at the 2:19 mark. - Start:DASH!
from Love Live! School idol festival...the second note lasts three minutes until a Bait-and-Switch occurs toward the end. - Ice Man
from Mega Man 1 has one that starts at the 12 second mark and lasts for the rest of the video.
- Prologue (Castle Gate)
- Innocuously Important Episode:
- The rip of the Love Live! School idol festival song "Futari Happiness (NOZOMI Mix)" (in which SiIvaGunner's "HQripper 7.0" software causes problems with the rip, forcing him to get new ripping software from Loud Nigra) turns out to be connected with the reboot, according to this video
*. - "Opening Scene - Waluigi's Tacostand
" was a fake finale to The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis centering around Waluigi getting a job at El Bean's taco truck and him accidentally creating a portal after putting to much garlic on a taco. While this video was merely a joke at first, the Garlic Taco introduced in it would play a major in future lore videos, with it being responsible for 2B's entire arc on the channel and the Joke-Explainer replica's appearances in the AI Universe. - "Last Warning [FILE-22] - Haltmann's Archives
" initially seems to be a Bizarro Episode in the Haltmann's Archives series, with it centering around a simple request to Homer Simpson to return his erroneous shipments of donuts instead of documenting key parts of the channel's lore, alongside being seemingly written by an Out of Character Joke-Explainer. During the website portion of Law & Disorder - Lethal Proceedings, this archive would become highly important as one of the key pieces of evidence in Phoenix Wright's trial, with it being used to reveal Junko Enoshima as the true author of the archive and the mastermind behind Monokuma, alongside its actual purpose being to send a message to the latter.
- The rip of the Love Live! School idol festival song "Futari Happiness (NOZOMI Mix)" (in which SiIvaGunner's "HQripper 7.0" software causes problems with the rip, forcing him to get new ripping software from Loud Nigra) turns out to be connected with the reboot, according to this video
- Insistent Terminology: SiIvaGunner's videos don't contain "music", "remixes", "mashups", or anything like that. They contain "High Quality Video Game Rips".
- Interface Spoiler:
- A lot of commenters correctly predict a "Snow halation" mashup when the video is 4:20 in length (occasionally plus or minus a second due to random errors in rendering).
- "Oh cool, they uploaded a rip called 'Theme of HOBaRT'! Wait, why is it age-restricted?"
- Internal Homage: The video uploads and channel banner used during the RIP2 event are parodies of various "Kirbtunes" artworks with characters from the Christmas Comeback Crisis replacing the Kirby characters (except for Meta Knight, who is prominent in both). For example, compare the artwork of "jazzless"
with that of "Gourmet Race Fusion Collab"
. - In the Style of: The defining trait of the channel and what sets it apart, more than half of its discography consists of songs In the Style of whatever video game (the other half being the "mashup" remixes), either using audio assets ripped out of the game (for retro games) or tracking down the original instrument software used in making the song (for modern games). Became exaggerated after the early years of the channel, as nowadays they'll do all that is possible to upkeep accuracy to the track being imitated.
- It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Parodied with regards to the New Super Mario Bros. series in this
video. It's ostensibly the overworld theme from New Super Mario Bros. Wii (and uses that game's logo for the thumbnail), but the song itself is the title theme from New Super Mario Bros. 1, with the image being New Super Mario Bros. 2's logo and the playlist link in the description going to that of New Super Mario Bros. U. - Jump Scare:
- At the last second of "Stage Start (Alternate Mix) - Donkey Kong", which is mostly a remix of the main theme of Luigi's Mansion, Loud Nigra comes in, and it's louder than the rest of the video.
- The lone rip of Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, predictably, is mostly quiet... save for several abrupt, loud soundbites from the channel's Running Gags.
- Any rip that uses the Green de la Bean
meme will most definitely have one of these, usually accompanied with
Sensory Abuse to boot. Thankfully, the animation used (featuring a cartoon bean mascot) is a deliberate Nightmare Retardant, plus later appearances have become more telegraphed. - A Creepypasta-esque version of this started after the channel returned from its "pause" in early 2017. These rips usually began with an image of a "Egghead", a black boy wearing shorts and a life vest on a white background. The video zooms onto his face, and without warning, shifts to an edited, red-tinted photo of a celebrity with glowing white eyes while playing a loud noise, followed alarm sounds. The image fades away as the rip shifts to a completely unrelated video. Fans aren't sure what this even is, and ultimately these rips ended, although there were two Call Backs to them in early 2019.
- Kayfabe Music:
- To a certain extent, since no credit is given on rips and the channel is dolled up to look like it's just some guy archiving Game Music, with no mention of the large amount of people working behind the scenes to make remixes of said music. Downplayed due to the channel description's disclaimer and the request to "please read the channel description" on every video, though it still doesn't quite mention that it's a Bait-and-Switch channel. Averted on the Bandcamp, where all rips are credited to the correct artist.
- Also an oddly In-Universe example: The Hostile Show Takeover-filled Season 2 did not touch the "bait" part of the Bait-and-Switch, with only the "please read the channel description" part (which was notably not on the real GilvaSunner's channel) changing for each host. Haltmann eventually invoked the kayfabe for Season 3 onwards by setting up the AI to act like the original SiIvaGunner.
- Kazoos Mean Silliness: A high-quality "Vocal Mix"
of "One-Winged Angel" from Final Fantasy VII performed entirely on kazoos. - Keep Circulating the Tapes: The main theme of the "Lost Media Day" event. Most of the rips during the event are based on songs, games and shows that either are not publicly available or weren't publicly available for a long time, such as "Subways of Your Mind" or some of the unreleased games for the Virtual Boy. The event ended with all of its rips privated, bringing the theme to its logical conclusion (although they would be unprivated a few days later).
- Kid-Appeal Character: Or rather "kid-appeal meme", the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 rips with the "Nick Arcade Prototype" label all use jokes that would be relevant to Nickelodeon's Target Audience of children, such as Big Chungus, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, or Chuck E. Cheese.
- Knight Templar: Mr. Rental is one as of this rip
, wanting to ban all mashups from the channel, regardless of quality. - Late-Arrival Spoiler: With how popular the remixes have become, the Bait-and-Switch intent is expected rather than not (although the channel still trolls listeners with how it surprises them).
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: On July 7th, "A Grand New Era ~Finale~" was uploaded and quickly deleted in favor of an ARG that eventually resulted in the video being reuploaded for good. The only difference between the leaked release (reuploaded on another channel)
and the current release
is an additional scene before the merging sequence:Voice: Oh, and Chad? If you happen to be epileptic, you might want to turn away. The restoration process could get a little messy on the eyes. Unless of course, you happen to have seen this process before. But you certainly couldn't have, right? Let us begin. - Leave the Camera Running: During the week between the "Koriball2" and "Koriball2.5" streams, the stream chat was fully functional (despite the stream being offline), leading to this effect. The chat inevitably devolved to a couple people having irrelevant conversations.
- Left Hanging: The lore thread featuring Mr. Rental is ultimately never finished. However, Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game
, gives us some information on how the series was supposed to end. - Leitmotif: In almost all of the songs for the fictional game Tate's Journey, Norwegian singer Bambee's song, "Bumble Bee" is implemented one way or another.
- Letting the Air out of the Band: Done with "The Grand Finale"
, the "beta mix"
of The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy, and "Final Boss"
, marking the transition into the real songs. The "Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom"
rip also does this to The Simpsons's theme. - Let's Play: "Let's Play -
Super Mario RPG" is presented as one of 7 Grand Dad. At first, the player speaks fondly of the game, but after getting a Game Over on the first level, he Rage Quits, storms off to vent his frustration, and comes back to calmly announce that there will be no more episodes. - Living Statue: This is SiIvagunner's Author Avatar, a digitally-modified bust of Antinous.
- Long List:
- Rips of Mario Forever usually simply list the console origin as "PC". For the title screen rip
, it is apparently on "PC, Windows, Flash, Computer, Personal Computer, Android, Mobile Phone, Samsung Galaxy, Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 2000, Desktop, Linux Mint PC, Mac, HTML5, Mario Platform, Super Windows 8.1, Windows Microsoft 7, Chrome OS, Mobile Android Kitkat, Macintosh Apple Computer, Windows Virtual Box VMWare, Wii U Nintendo Browzer Orygynal, Nintendololo On Afficial 3DS, Linux Super, Ubuntu, Spongebob Stupid in Maryo Simulator (Portable Device)". - In the video "Mystery of the SiIcret Gunner - A SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story
", when Reader and Jerome are at McDonald's trying to contact Woodman and decide to call someone who can help them, Reader suggests a huge list of characters, naming 80 of them (some of which are repeats, and a majority of them being characters from The Simpsons) before finally realizing they can try Mario. The FanFiction.net version
adds NOAKA to the list.
- Rips of Mario Forever usually simply list the console origin as "PC". For the title screen rip
- Long Song, Short Scene: The rip of Undertale's Power of "NEO"
pokes fun at the fact that this song plays for a Zero-Effort Boss.- A similar thing is done for "A Critical Battle
" from The Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation, poking fun at the shortness of the mid-boss battles.
- A similar thing is done for "A Critical Battle
- Loophole Abuse: In "Trial - Part 2
" of Law & Disorder – Lethal Proceedings, Phoenix Wright circumvents his self-inflicted restriction of only being allowed to show one piece of evidence to prove Junko Enoshima was wrong about everything by having the Joke-Explainer Replica recreate the message Monokuma left on the back of a King For Another Day poster, with Monokuma justifying it because they were merely showing a recreation of a piece of evidence instead of the actual thing. - Lucky Seven: As a reference to the "Grand Dad" bootleg game's full title, "Super Mario 7" / "7 Grand Dad", the number seven (as well as seven thousand, AKA seven grand) serves as an Arc Number of SiIvaGunner and his works.
- Mainstream Obscurity: Discussed in "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel". Chaze the Chat speculates that SiIvaGunner is more well-known than its subscriber count suggests but that people don't subscribe to the channel due to the sheer amount of content released. (SiIvaGunner "only" had 66k subscribers at the time and that doubled pretty quickly after the channel ending announcement, which may lend some credence to this.)Chaze: I'm fairly certain that's the reason why we don't have a ton of subscribers, because even though I'm pretty sure we're well-known on the Internet, like, not, like, super well-known, but, like, semi-well-known, we don't have a lot of subscribers because we upload every hour and that's just... people don't want that in their sub box, just ruining their – their videos.
- Malicious Misnaming: Chad Warden refers to the Voice Inside Your Head as the "Gay Mexican-Ass in My Ass" on multiple occasions.
- The Man Behind the Man:
- As revealed in Pokémon Grand Dad Edition, The Voice Inside Your Head was only a conduit for something much more sinister.
- The whole channel is manned by an internet user named Chaze the Chat, who identified himself in one of the last videos SiIvaGunner posted.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The
"Agent Yoru o Yuku"
April Fools 2017 rip, which brings together a massive All-Star Cast to perform a huge meme compilation to the tune of "Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga", including the cast of TOME (with LittleKuriboh doing a YGOTAS bit), Kira Buckland, Corina Boettger, and Matt Shipman, with mixing and mastering by The Living Tombstone, among others. - Mecha-Mooks: In the Christmas Comeback Crisis, Haltmann augments his legions of Patrol-Bots and Splicers with the Harlequin Force Stringbots, robotic versions of Green de la Bean designed for riot control. Though also equipped with Power Pincers and Rocket Boots, their main offensive weaponry is blasting "U Guessed It" and "No Words" at extremely high volumes.
- Merged Reality: The Voice Inside Your Head offers Chad Warden the opportunity to create a world where all of SiIvaGunner's traditions before and during the reboot co-exist, with the exception of the divisive "Snow halation". Chad ultimately accepts this, since all he wants is the real SiIva back, but manages to get "Snow halation" back anyway.
- Mood Whiplash:
- This "rip"
of the
Nintendo GameCube startup fanfare begins with a particularly creepy song from The Binding of Isaac, combined with "THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!" and Vinny laughing... then abruptly changes to the rubber ducky version of the actual song at the very end. - The infamous Ai no Uta rip
from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A cute and peaceful
Pikmin song that suddenly gets mixed with the loud and Wangsty Crawling
from Linkin Park. - Done in the "final" reboot rip
, where the singer of the DK Rap tells fans of Snow Halation to shoot themselves in the middle of the song.
- This "rip"
- Mutual Envy: The RE:SPH ARG has this happen between two computer programs. In the AIRTH branch, we learn the SiIva A.I. was jealous of Wood Man's comparative freedom, making movies and interacting with the world the A.I. created while the latter was stuck maintaining the universe's existence in solitude. At the end of the ARG, Wood Man himself admits that he was jealous of the A.I. being able to gain his own will and fight for the sake of his universe, even at the cost of his own life; while Wood Man abandoned everyone in shame because he felt he wasn't up to the task of fixing the CCC.
- Mythology Gag:
- The channel usually replicates errors and other abnormalities made by the original GilvaSunner channel:
- Normally, the channel's title format is "Song - Game". However, a number of playlists instead use "Game Music - Song" or "Game - Song". This is pretty much exclusively done for games that were titled that way by GilvaSunner.note Super Mario All-Stars is a notable extreme example, where not only does the title use the game name first format, but the metadata isn't even finished, since most of Super Mario Bros. 3 has no description or formatting in the title. This is always replicated by SiIvaGunner.
- Snowmobile Accident
may initially seem out of place unless you look at the real GilvaSunner's channel, where he has an almost identical video,
which instead uses the Slider theme from Super Mario Galaxy 2. - Gerudo Valley
from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U shows Diddy Kong for less than a second before switching to Link, replicating the same error made on GilvaSunner's video of the original song. - Most rips of Super Mario Sunshine have the game's title screen fade in from white at the beginning of the video, much like GilvaSunner's music uploads for the same game.
- Some rips during the SilvaGunner: Reboot story arc reference The Flintstones, which is sort of an In-Universe Mythology Gag, since it's supposed to be Ret-Gone and replaced by The Simpsons:
- The Director's Cut
of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy's title theme is actually just the audio of the opening scene of "Marge vs. the Monorail" where Homer reenacts the opening of The Flintstones. Then a Surprisingly Creepy Moment happens. - The "Bowser's Theme (Beta Mix) - Super Mario 64"
uses the Flintstones theme song outright... because "Bowser's Theme - Super Mario 64"
was one of the few pre-reboot rips to use the Simpsons theme song.
- The Director's Cut
- The "Map" rip
from Daffy Duck: Fowl Play features Daffy exclaiming, "Not 'GO MY WAY!!', you SoundClown!", referencing the community that SiIvaGunner originated from. - The announcement of the channel ending
was done in the style of a "the nutshack theme but X" video, which became extremely widespread on YouTube after The Nutshack become popular on the channel. - While it's in-character for Linda, the fact that she only hears video game music instead of rips during the Phineas and Ferb Takeover mirrors the Kayfabe SiIvaGunner (the character) used to pull in the comments.
- The channel usually replicates errors and other abnormalities made by the original GilvaSunner channel:
- Never Trust a Title: Waluigi doesn't actually own the tacostand in the Waluigi's Tacostand rip. The stand is instead owned by El Bean.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The cause of the Continuity Reboot? Chad Warden telling SiIva fans not to dislike-bomb Snow Halation rips, leading them into a discourse.
- Also the reason The Voice Inside Your Head returns for the Christmas Finale? The user base kept him alive by thinking about him, as that is how figments stay alive.
- Non-Indicative Name: Sometimes the rips don't play the song suggested in their titles at all, not even at the beginning in order to kickstart the Bait-and-Switch. For example, in "Bob-omb Battlefield (Extended Mix) - Super Mario 64
", while the song does sound like it could come from Super Mario 64, at no point does it actually resemble "Bob-omb Battlefield" at all. - Ominous Visual Glitch:
- "Now Rebooting - SilvaGunner: Rebooted"
was originally uploaded with the title "S͏͔̜͍n̶͔̲͓̹ò͓w̨̯̻̲̼̩_҉̲͎̲̣͙h̶a̫͖l҉̱̞͍̯̰█" and a glitched thumbnail. - "PlayStation Startup (PlayStation 2 Version) - Console/BIOS Music"
has the logo glitch out wildly as the video is taken over by MissingNo. - "PlayStation Format Disc Error - Console/BIOS Music"
has glitched visuals as a Shout-Out to a certain scene in Doki Doki Literature Club!. - The final SiIva AI Log, "[SIIVA AI LOG: 2̷̙̝̬͋̈́̏0̴̲̔2̶̨̥̱̜̅̄2̷̜̮̇-̵̡̗͇͂1̵̹̙̜̘́̍̊̕2̵̢̤͆-̸̳̋̉2̵̣̀̉͠4̶͖̦̜̋̚͝ͅ]", was written as the A.I. was in the process of shutting down. As such, glitches appeared in both the title and the log itself.
- "Now Rebooting - SilvaGunner: Rebooted"
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Voice Inside Your Head is only known as such, since he believes names are not important. He only provides the nickname to Chad Warden for sake of being addressed by someone.
- Only Mostly Dead: What happened to The Voice after being destroyed by Chad at the end of the reboot arc. While he died, the idea of him was preserved through Wood Man, thus enabling him to return in the future.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- After the infamous "Harlequin Baby Incident"*, SiIva actually broke character in order to properly apologize to their fans, explain that the now-deleted video was uploaded by one now-fired contributor without permission from the rest of the group, and that tasteless shock humor like that is not supposed to be part of the channel's directive.
- The Season 1 ending not only features the first contributor (Chaze the Chat) showing his face for the first time on the channel, but also has a number of subtler clues (for one, the title rather directly says the channel is ending — something none of the earlier Series Fauxnales did — and the description is simply a reiteration of SiIva's Catchphrase). This was presumably necessary after the repeated fake-outs, as it was intended to be the end of the channel at the time.
- One, Two, Three, Four, Go!
- Used as a Stealth Pun by the Maroon 5-themed Maroon GO rips, which itself is depicted as a parody of Pokémon GO.
- Orwellian Retcon:
- The P-R-O-G-R-A-M
rip was originally titled "P-R-O-G-R-A-M (OST Version)", as there was another rip of the song that already had the name that functioned as the channel's trailer. After the newer rip became the channel trailer out of fan demand, the "OST Version" subtitle was removed from the video, and the original "P-R-O-G-R-A-M" rip was labelled the "Alternate Mix". - Volume 6.66 of the "Highest Quality Video Game Rips" album series was updated to add four new tracksnote and rename a number of others.note In addition, three early tracks were moved to later in the albumnote , and "Quest to the Tower of Emblems and Adventures and Time Keys" corrected the "QTQTQk" mispelling of QTQTQ's name.
- On October 25, 2023, all rips from Homestuck games that were used as an excuse to rip songs from the original comic were changed to be rips of Homestuck directly, and were moved to a new playlist to accommodate them. A YouTube community post lampshaded the change by showing the arm of John Egbert near SiIvaGunner's laptop, referencing his retcon powers near the end of the comic.
- The P-R-O-G-R-A-M
- Out-of-Character Moment: As acknowledged by its description, Stagg Street Arrangements strays from the channel's video game-focused content. It's a cover album where the songs are done In the Style of of certain games, such as Namco's arcade chip and Pokémon soundfonts. The final track, "Everyday Goodbyes", is a live cover, but it incorporates "The Flintstones" and "Snow halation" into its instrumental.
- Out of Focus: During the first King For a Day tournament, Ajit Pai only got one rip to his name, then got snapped by Thanos and didn't come back until the next tournament. In the second tournament Eminem fares only a little better, having a grand total of five rips and three dual mixes which would have been amazing in the original tourney but is downright pathetic compared to the massive increase in rips per character.
- Overly Long Gag:
- One common edit is to loop the song's intro for the entire video. Fans of it have referred to this as "musical blue balls".
- "Nightmare
" from Yume Nikki is essentially a 16-minute, audio-only walkthrough of how to trigger the infamous "Uboa" event (where the track plays in-game). At the end, when the event is finally triggered, the track is pitch-shifted to "GO MY WAY!!". To add further insult to injury, speeding up the ending reveals a sound clip of Filthy Frank saying, "You just got pranked, bro! Ha ha!" - Level 1 (Desert Bus)
from Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors contains the entire 8 hours, while Beloved Tomboyish Girl (Extended Mix)
from Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil features a paulstretch that lasts 9:09:09. In both videos, The Flintstones theme plays at the 7 hour mark. - The extended
version
of "Cave Dungeon" from Super Mario 64, when combined are over 12 hours long. They are extremely slowed down versions of the song building up speed for 12 hours until it returns to the normal speed. - "BIG (Extended Mix)
" from PaRappa the Rapper 2 goes through its first two verses entirely unedited; the joke doesn't kick in until the third. - The rip of the pause menu jingle
from Wario World is 50 minutes long, featuring well over a hundred different jokes, memes, and references. A number of brave commenters took it upon themselves to try to document every joke in the video, and still are not sure whether they have succeeded. - Mega Man 3's Stage Select rip
takes it up a step with a 1 HOUR AND 50 MINUTE MIX. - "Beedle's Shop Ship - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass"
melody-swaps the source track to "Drive Drive Drive" from an episode of Impractical Jokers where Q was forced to listen to it for 11 hours, making it, of course, an 11-hour blue balls rip.
- Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: On September 15th, 2016 (the 1st anniversary of Undertale's release), Silva uploaded nothing but Mother-related rips. This went on for almost twenty-four hours, seemingly culminating with an actual Undertale "Megalovania" rip that's intentionally underwhelming. But then, thirty minutes later, along comes the simultaneous release of 39 Undertale-related rips — the single biggest release in the channel's history!
- Painting the Medium:
- "anouncement.wmv", a video imitating the style of early YouTube, has a broken thumbnail.
- "abc_123_a - Undertale", which prominently features the Gaster Followers, is intentionally unlisted and can only be found by directly inputting its URL, tying in with how the Gaster Followers can only be encountered in Undertale by modifying the game's hidden Fun Values.
- "The Voice" behind the reboot occasionally types in an ominous font when he takes control, as seen in these
tweets
. - The SiIva AI Logs are portrayed in a format relevant to when it was written. The post-mortem for King for a Day was in the middle of a 4chan thread about leaks for the second tournament, the one taking place close to Curse of the Fallen Angel is written on the event's Google Form, The All-Star Winter Festival log is done as an intermission bumper for the Christmas Comeback Crisis watchalong, and so on.
- Parody Assistance:
- SiIva and Vinesauce Joel (whose streams inspired the Grand Dad jokes that the channel was first founded on) helped with the script for the fan video "Hotel GiIvaSunner"
. Joel additionally did voice work for the video. - Chris Niosi helped in the creation of the rip of "Agent Yoru o Yuku", which is a SiIvaGunner-themed parody of his own "Nico Nico Douga -Kirbomix~".
- The Living Tombstone submitted a rip parodying his song about the first Five Nights at Freddy's 1 game.
- JohnnyUtah, creator of the Tankmen series and Sergeant John's voice actor, recorded a new set of death screen insults for the mod of the "Ugh
" rip. - Key After Key, composer of the original "OOF-Y GROOVES," is also the composer of "OOF-Y GROOVES (Playtest 2 Version) - PHIGHTING!
". - Nicopatty, creator of and composer for Nico's Nextbots, is also the composer of the rip "delta lobby (ost version)
," along with both rips from the Roblox event that use the NN OST as the joke.
- SiIva and Vinesauce Joel (whose streams inspired the Grand Dad jokes that the channel was first founded on) helped with the script for the fan video "Hotel GiIvaSunner"
- Pastiche: The video announcing his April Fools' Day album, anouncement.wmv
, imitates the style of countless poorly-made tutorial YouTube videos from the mid-to-late 2000s (including a mashup of several once-popular songs from the era to boot, such as Dreamscape
by 0009 Sound System and Bodies
by Drowning Pool.) - The Power of Love: What "Snow halation" ultimately represents to SiIva and the fans who love it, according to Chad Warden. He also ends the war between him and the Voice Inside Your Head by using the ultimate form of YouTube love: the MF Like Button. This ultimately kills both the Voice and Chad.
- Read the Freaking Manual: For rips, the description will say "Please read the channel description
" at the bottom. - Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Crosses over with Fictional Video Game in this video
, a pastiche of the reveal trailer for
Sonic Mania depicting a similarly updated version of 7 Grand Dad. It's lampshaded in the fine print at the very end, which remarks that it "won't come out, probably." Then it was announced
to be real, but was later cancelled. - Red Herring: There's a playlist
for Half-Life 3 on the channel. All three of its videos are private. - Reference Overdosed: Trying to list all of the different references, musical or otherwise, that are put into his videos would take up most of the page. Sometimes even a single video will qualify. This "high quality rip"
of the Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf battle theme in particular is loaded with them. Pause Screen
from Wario World goes a million steps further by being 50 minutes worth of Wario nyah-nyah-ing to the melody of hundreds of different songs. - Relax-o-Vision: "Bean Bean Pork Bean - MOTHER 3"
has the Green de la Bean Running Gag, but here it gets only as far as a bass-boosted "BITCH U" before quickly cutting to soothing nature footage and music in place of the usual Sensory Abuse. The meme text still appears, but slowly and in a cursive font. - Retraux: As a channel covering music In the Style of video game soundtracks, this is basically necessary to mimick the styles of retro sound chips. Though note that these are In the Style of, and not just Pastiches of retro game music; since it is usually possible to rip audio assets out of retro games, the channel does this and then reconstructs them in a form editable with modern software.
- The Reveal: In Pokémon Grand Dad Edition (which part of the reboot finale ARG), the Voice Inside Your Head confesses upon defeat that despite his previous claims, he doesn't really care about what YouTube commenters think, and that he was just a pawn of something much worse.Voice:
A vitriolic... thing. It wreaks its revenge upon the world.
Or so I think. Truthfully, I don't know what drives it.
But it is determined.
Vile and incomprehensible beyond words.
It channels an ancient evil within it. Can be held accountable for all that is wrong with... everything, really. - Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: A Downplayed example, since the channel was always focused on light-hearted, zany humor and rips in the modern day are the same format as those from the past, but some rips from Season 1 could be way edgier or straight-up terrifying than anything present now, with particularly infamous (and, thankfully, removed) examples being the Harlequin Baby Incident, the 9/11 jokes on the event's anniversary, Green de La Bean, and even possible child abuse audio in "Theme Song - Caillou"note . While the more modern incarnation of the channel Season 3 and onwards can still occasionally have less lighthearted content (i.e., some of the events in the Christmas Comeback Crisis, Egghead, farting D. Va, etc.), it definitely isn't as dark or edgy as the earlier incarnation.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Chad Warden is the only person unaffected by the High Quality Reboot, which throws a wrench in The Voice Inside Your Head's plans.
- Rock Trio: As implied by the channel banner, we had Grand Dad, Nozomi Tojo, and Loud Nigra. However, in September 2016, Loud Nigra was replaced by Tito Dick, forming a new trio. However, as of January 2021, Tito has been removed with no replacement.
- Rousing Speech: Chad Warden, of all people, delivers one in the "true ending"
of the reboot:Chad: While I can't stop hate, I can sure as hell encourage love. - Running Gag: See here for a list of them.
- Running Gagged:
- This video
appears to do this to "Snow halation", where "HALATION.SYS" causes a problem, forcing the channel to be shut down and rebooted in High Quality mode. - "Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom"
sees the apparent end of The Simpsons, a staple of the High Quality Reboot. - The Green de la Bean meme was scrubbed from the channel after one of them received a takedown for Community Guideline Violations.
- "Pork Bean Outta Gas - MOTHER 3"
has D.Va failing to fart as she does in the other rips she appears in, giving viewers hope that her dreaded Running Gag was finally coming to an end... only for her to appear in several other rips afterward, farting as much as ever. - "YANKIN' FOREVER"
'' has Knuckles seal Lady inside the Master Emerald, bringing the Pussy Yankover to an end.
- This video
- Russian Reversal: The description of Type A - Tetris
asks the viewer to "Please be read by the channel description." - Screamer Prank: While memes such as "Egghead" and "Green de la Bean" resemble this with their Jump Scares, the closest this channel has come to resembling a classic screamer would be "Circus (she said she wanna dance but she dont know how to mix)"
, which ends with an Extreme Close-Up of a shoebill's face in Chiaroscuro, accompanied by booming static. One of the early Bean rips deleted from the channel, "Coffee Break - Mother 3"
, also qualifies by being a parody of the K-fee ads. - Seduction Lyric: The song "But Not You" from the "King For Another Day" Tournament is a Parody with intentionally awful, lecherous lyrics, sung from the point of view of an incompetent, sleazy Casanova Wannabe; So come on baby please / Let me give you a squeeze. "The Ballads of Naxx and Doge", the video in which the song debuted, also opens with Naxx singing a different song in similar style.
- Self-Deprecation:
- This rip
of "Daffy Duck: Fowl Play"'s Map music. Basically, it's the reboot a la Duck Amuck. - "Time for the Climax!"
from Bayonetta 2 has the rip cut short with an issued apology for being a "low quality rip." Likely because it makes an incredibly obvious joke, that being Loud Nigra.
- This rip
- Self-Parody:
- April Fools 2023 (otherwise known as Beta Mix Day) was a day dedicated to the channel ripping its own videos.
- Season 9 had a simple ARG hosted by Stingy, which he set up in an attempt to have an ARG for himself after hearing about the popularity of Season 8's RE:SPH ARG. Being a little kid, his puzzles are much simpler.
- Series Fauxnale:
- On March 30th, right after the announcement
of his first album, SiIva uploaded a rip
of "Last Goodbye", then proceeded to not upload anything for the entire rest of the day. Many assumed it was the end of the channel (as the video's title and production values implied); however, he made a grand comeback on April Fools' Day. - Then his channel got taken down the next week, causing many to fear that SiIva was gone for good...until he announced on Twitter that he would be coming back.
- History repeated itself on May 30th, when SiIva revealed another Greatest Hits Album and proceeded to reupload "Last Goodbye", upload a new rip of "Good Night" (combined with "Goodbye to a World", which includes lyrics about saying goodbye)... then not uploading anything for several days. However, on June 7th, he released a video
announcing the release of "The All New... SiIvaGunner... PACHINKO MACHINE!" He then went back to uploading videos. - Christmas 2022 saw the uploads of numerous "Game Over" and "Ending" tracks, followed by a fusion collab for Porter Robinson's "Goodbye to a World". A day later, a video called "My Last Message" was uploaded, with a "credits" list a short bit after. People were confused over whether this was an event, an album announcement, or the channel shutting down again. The channel returned on February 1st, 2023.
- On March 30th, right after the announcement
- Sensory Abuse:
- Occasionally used, particularly whenever Sanic turns up.
- Ironically, rips featuring Loud Nigra only sometimes fit this trope.
- In a less traditional sense, the Koriball2 stream fit the bill - it was composed of several songs (some altered, some not) playing over each other, with no attempt to make them harmonize. Predictably, the results
note sound terrible. - Rips featuring the "You Just Got Beaned" meme fit this trope, sometimes in more ways than one.
- Shout-Out: There are enough references and jokes that go beyond the actual music changes that it gets its own page!
- Siamese Twin Songs:
- The Flintstones theme and "Snow Halation" are often featured back-to-back within the same rip.
- "Rhythm Code" (better known as "Puzzle Room") and the "Continue?" music from the Felix The Cat bootleg. When they both appear in a rip, they're treated as a single reference/song rather than two. Downplayed, as the former usually appears on its own. Sometimes "Russkij Pusskij" (linked from "ДА" in the infamous deleted video) is mashed up with either or both.
- The Wii Shop Channel's theme tends to be associated with "Hotline Bling", thanks to SiIvagunner's team member toonlink's famous mashup of the two songs.
- "Among Us Trap Remix" and "AirPod Shotty" are often combined, both being rather short Among Us meme songs.
- Some rips are known as "twin rips" due to the fact that they're often released back-to-back and feature the inverse of each other's jokes.
- Significant Monogram: Haltmann's Archives designate the main universe that the cast lives in as the Central Canon Continuum, matching with the initials of the Christmas Comeback Crisis.
- Snicket Warning Label: "One-Winged Angel (Beta Mix) - Final Fantasy VII"
loops the track's opening chords for 17 seconds, then has BonziBuddy's Synthetic Voice Actor say, "I'm just kidding. This isn't a blue-balls rip. However, you're going to wish it was." The track then continues, and BonziBuddy says "I warned you" just before the pitch-shifted vocals of Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe" cut in. - Softer and Slower Cover: "Candy's Music Store - Donkey Kong 64"
is a very laid-back arrangement of "Yakety Sax". - Spoiler Title: Averted for the Christmas 2024 ARG. Its official title (The Susie ARG) wasn't revealed until its completion as the title would reveal its central character, which is very important to one of the major characters in lore and said character wouldn't made an appearance until the midway point of the ARG.
- Stealth Pun:
- He uploaded seven Grand Metropolis rips, and only the seventh was edited.
- Several rips make auditory puns, usually due to the titles' liberal use of Exact Words. For example, the rip of "We Love Burning Town" features the sounds of a literal burning town, and the rip of "Prism City" has the sound of paper being ripped.
- The "Positive Mix"
of "Aporia" is a rendition of both "Roundabout" and "Heart of the Sunrise", both songs by Yes. - "Nocturne of Shadow"
from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time starts with said song, but after it finishes, it transitions into a remix of "Big Arms", using Ocarina of Time's soundfont. Why? Because the "Big Arms" theme was also used as the theme of the Nocturne area in Sonic Chronicles. - The "Maroon GO" rips seems like a blatant excuse to make Maroon 5 mashups under a Fictional Video Game, but it's all clear why when you realize 'go' is Japanese for 'five'.
- Dream to Return Land - Kirby Does His Taxes
is a Kirby-style remix of Porter Robinson and Madeon's "Shelter"; a tax shelter. - "Empty House" is a mashup with Tupac Shakur's "Sucker for Love", which only makes sense when you're aware that "LOVE", within the context of the game, is an acronym for "Level Of ViolEnce", and that this track only plays when you kill Toriel, thereby boosting your LOVE.
- "Robo's Theme (PAL Version)"
from Chrono Trigger uses "This Day Aria", which is sung by Princess Cadence and her imposter, Queen Chrysalis. It ends on a half cadence
. - On the release day of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the channel uploaded a series of Kirby-related rips parodying Everywhere At The End Of Time, an album series about dementia. One of the primary characteristics of dementia is forgetfulness. Furthermore, the musician behind The Caretaker project is named James Leyland Kirby.
- Stock Sitcom Grand Finale: Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD
has Grand Dad, Nozomi, and Loud Nigra walking through a Continuity Cavalcade, with the final location being the tower from Tengami, the channel's standard header image. Nozomi and Loud Nigra continue walking, but Grand Dad stops to look up. - String Theory: The channel banner during the Law & Disorder takeover is this, playing off the mystery theme of the event.
- Stylistic Suck:
- The channel itself is meant to be an inversion of this; as Chaze the Chat explained here
, he was one of many people who had grown sick of YouTube users churning out bad content while pretending to be LittleKuriboh, so Chaze eventually decided to create GiIvaSunner to bring unto YouTube an impersonator who actually produced good content for once. - "anouncement.wmv" is made in the style of early YouTube videos, including the usage of Windows Movie Maker and Hypercam; the word "announcement" is even misspelled in the title!
- The "Alternate Mix"
of "Megalovania" is a terrible-sounding mashup with the Space Jam theme... until 1:04, at which point the music turns into a Waters Of Megalovania mix that sounds much better (transitioning with an audio clip of
Filthy Frank saying "You just got pranked, bro!", no less). - The Mr. Rental
rip features a crudely-animated recreation of the Flintstones-themed Lead In for an episode of The Simpsons. - Menu - Garfield
is not actually a song, but instead an "animated" homage to a similarly-styled animation, Garfielf. - Fountain of Dreams - Super Smash Bros. Melee
lazily edits a multitude of the channel's running gags over the original song. At the same time.
- The channel itself is meant to be an inversion of this; as Chaze the Chat explained here
- Sudden Downer Ending: "The Grand Finale (Alternate Mix)"
from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, one of the last rips before the true conclusion of the reboot, ended with all hope of the old gags returning dashed, with the community's actions having supposedly led to Chad Warden's death."SiIvaGunner is dead, and it's all because of you. It's all... because... of you! You fucked up!pu dekcuf uoY !uoy fo-" - Super-Deformed: "Smol Nozomi," while uncommonly seen on the channel proper, is almost always seen as the embodiment of Snow Halation on the channel. "Smol" variants of other idols from the series have also been featured on rare occasions, most often on their respective birthdays.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Circus (not the one from deltarune)"
is a Toby Fox rip, as the video description admits, though not from Deltarune—instead, it's "ASGORE" from Undertale (or rather, BotanicSage's notorious remix With Lyrics, "ASSGORE"). - Synthetic Voice Actor:
- SiIva's (and his A.I. duplicate's) "voice" is VoiceForge's "Wiseguy" option. You may recognize it as Garfielf, Dave Miller, or from certain GoAnimate videos.
- The above-mentioned Menu - Garfield video gives Grand Dad VoiceForge's "JerkFace" option in order to play the role of Jon to SiIva's Garfielf.
- The Voice Inside Your Head uses UK Graham of NaturalReaders.com
. - Mr. Rental's voice is provided by Microsoft Sam. Even in the Looney Tunes rips that give him Speaking Simlish, it's rendered as Sam's infamous "soi soi soi" sound.
- The Gaster Followers in "abc_123_a - Undertale"
are portrayed by various voices from FL Studio 11's speech synthesizer, the same ones used by the source track in Undertale. - "The Noble Haltmann: Final Recital (Vocal Mix) - Kirby Planet Robobot"
has Susie's vocals performed by the Uberduck Drake AI.
- Take That!: Has enough for its own page.
- Take That, Audience!:
- After the comments section erupted into a war between people with Dedede and Peridot avatars (eventually ending in favor of the former), a Stylistic Suck rip of Dedede's theme from Super Smash Bros. Brawl was uploaded (and subsequently deleted).
- The entire JOEJOE'S BIZZAERE JOJOKE album is a jab at people requesting rips from JoJo, most apparent with the way it was disguised as a proper album.
- Another jab at the comments section comes from "Overworld"
from Super Mario Bros. 2, which consists of goofy text-to-speech voices reading off some of the dumber comments. - The overwhelmingly negative audience response to the Pussy Yankover of April 2021 prompted the release of "Circus (Fuck You Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's"
, a mashup of Yankin' and Cabinet Man with a title that made it clear yes, the team were aware of the reaction to the takeover, and no, they weren't going to stop. - The original Green de la Bean rips were taken down from the channel due to community flagging, and this was rather bitterly referenced in a couple of rips uploaded to it over the next few days. "Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl"
was remade with the Bean Jump Scare (following two minutes of dead air) replaced with the Continue and Game Over screens from the game, and the image of the Bean on the final screen being grayed out with its catchphrase replaced by the message, "You've lost something precious." The incident was also the subject of the musically unaltered rip of "An Ending - Undertale"
(removed for unrelated reasons), in which SiIvaGunner sarcastically congratulates viewers for having made the channel "safe":* And all you had to do to make it happen...
* ...was murder my son and put me at risk of dying.
* Thanks.
* You friccin moron.
- Title Drop: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czlu1jr7e1c
"Raft Ride (Live Version) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening"]] is footage of the SiivaGunner team at MAGFest, playing a rendition of the infamous Raft Ride theme on kazoos. It ends with the group deciding on this name for the video. - Toilet Humor: In early fall 2019, there was an infamous serious of rips involving audio (and sometimes video) of a D. Va cosplayer yelling "Nerf This!", slapping her butt, and farting loudly (the farts are edited in from another video). These rips eventually ended, though there occasional references to them today.
- Tournament Arc: The "King For A Day Tournament" from Summer 2018 was one of these for the channel, where viewers voted between sixteen potential rip sources to see which "fighter" would take over the channel for a day. A second one occurred in Fall 2019, the "King For Another Day Tournament", which doubled the roster from sixteen to thirty-two contestants.
- Troll: What GiIvaSunner was before his pranks gained a fandom of their own.
- Uncommon Time: Songs with uncommon time signatures are occasionally ripped on the channel, such as "Strong One (Masked Man)" which is 29/16.
- Un-person: After March 31, in accordance with the delisting/discontinuation of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros. 35, SiIvagunner privated almost all of their Mario-related rips and uploaded new rips with all traces of Mario erased (including his name in the logos) and iconic music distorted beyond recognition. The comments sections of said videos all followed suit, all deliberately acting like he never existed in the first place, though still feeling like something is missing.
- "Untitled" Title: One of the many rips of "Circus" from Five Nights at Freddy's 1 is titled "Circus ()"
. - Urban Legend of Zelda:
- "how to catch grandon in pokemon ruby"
uses alleged gameplay footage from Pokemon Ruby (but actually from the Emerald version) in a parody of early YouTube video walkthroughs claiming to illustrate ways to unlock super-secret Pokémon. - "Sugu Ni Kese - Shin Megami Tensei"
is based on a Japanese urban legend about Shin Megami Tensei I.
- "how to catch grandon in pokemon ruby"
- Viewers Are Geniuses: Some rips have esoteric punchlines, which leads to the Running Gag of commenters being a part of the "'I don't get the joke' club". This meme can also be used sarcastically for rips with extremely obvious punchlines.
- Villain Ball: The Voice Inside Your Head merges both the original and reboot universes without Snow Halation, then makes Chad his partner in running SiIvaGunner Enterprises. Unfortunatley for the Voice, Chad uses his new position to bring Snow Halation back himself.
- Villain Song: DK Rap (Anniversary Edition)
, also known as "The Snow Halation Sucks Rap", serves as one for the Voice Inside Your Head, outlining his absolute hatred of Snow Halation and "weeaboo shit" as well as promoting his own memes. While mainly a corruption of the DK Rap, The Voice joins in and drops a few lines himself before the song abruptly shifts into Snow Halation, causing him to angrily cut it short. - Visual Pun: The cover of Greatest Hits Volume 3 & Knigra shows SiIva's avatar ripping a piece of paper in half.
- We Can Rule Together: After the universes have merged, the Voice Inside Your Head offers Chad Warden to help guide the Grand New Era together as the Grandest Dads, a proposition Chad accepts. This turns out to be a big mistake on the Voice's part.
- Welcome to Corneria: SiIva's usual response to comments that question his (high-quality) rips: "I only upload high quality video game rips."
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Voice Inside Your Head. He booby trapped the High Quality Ripping software SiIva bought from the Nigra store so that he could initiate the High Quality Reboot. He did this to create a universe devoid of the infighting Chad Warden started concerning the act of dislike bombing "Snow Halation" rips. Later, he offers Chad the return of all the channel's old memes at the cost of the removal of Snow Halation to prevent further discourse, with Chad ultimately accepting, and keeps true to his word, even allowing Chad to join him.
- Although his position as a well-intentioned extremist hasn't changed, it's revealed that the Voice ultimately wasn't the cause of the reboot in the Pokémon ROM hack, but he's been trying to protect the channel from a bigger threat that did cause the reboot.
- Wham Episode:
- This "Snow Halation" rip
, which ended up starting the Continuity Reboot and initiating the channel's first plotline. (Also, this rip
hammers in that SiIva is Not Himself, since it takes a Flintstones remix
and replaces it with Family Guy.) - This video
, which finally elaborates on what happened to SiIva and reveals that someone was behind it. - A stream held on August 14th, 2016 had SiIvaGunner declare that mashups are no longer considered high quality, accompanied by a video of Mr. Rental going on a rampage against mashups
. - "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel"
, the video that confirmed that SiIvaGunner was coming to a close. - Prologue - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis
. A pyramid headed figure breaks into SiIva's home, uploads something onto his computer allowing him to create robots, creates a futuristic city, destroys a ship with Grand Dad, Nigra, and Meta Knight, and captures every meme except Nozomi. The person responsible for this? THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD - One particular audiolog
reveals that Haltmann has apparently been working on Inspector Gadget, who proceeds to attack the voice. - In the announcement
for the new album "Inspector Gunner", the Gadgetini Bot breaks down due to a DMCA, and Haltmann takes the reigns. - For King For Another Day, the prelude to the Grand Finals match.
Instead of announcing the final battle between DJ Professor K and Mariya, the Crown speaks, revealing its sentience. It announces that the tournament will last for an eternity and, to achieve that end, hijacks Unregistered Hypercam 2's body, creating a final boss where the two finalists must team up with all the other defeated contestants to overwhelm Unrestrained Hypercam 2 and the Crown. - The end of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival. Wood Man and Joke Explainer 7000 reached the meteor that caused the nuclear winter. And after many failed attempts to analyze it, and looking at Geno's past memories of him touching the meteor, Wood Man comes to a conclusion that the meteor and him shares a connection: they do not belong in this world. And with a final message given to Joke Explainer, Wood Man touches the meteor, with hopes of fixing the nuclear winter, and along with it, disappeared in the universe. The video after the two months hiatus following the credits to the festival is a CCC side story that reveals Wood Man's fate: He's fine, but the guilt of him goofing around in a parallel universe and not helping his friends back in Grandiose City has taken a toll on him, thus he leaves the channel entirely to find a solution to save them.
- After 6 whole years, the Christmas Comeback Crisis finally returns with episode 11, and the wait was worth it. The episode opens with the heroes exploring the Voice's Tower, as they reunited with Haruka, she gave them the whereabouts of all captured figments, letting them to free the figments captured in the prologue, including Grand Dad himself. After that, the heroes are forced into Haltmann's lab, where the CEO reveals his true plans with his latest creation, the SiIva A.I., and attempts to dispose the heroes with it. Eventually, they managed to defeat them both, sutting down the SiIvaGunner replica as well, leaving its core, which bears the same shape and color as the meteor that caused the Christmas 2022 Nuclear Winter Festival. Santa gives Haltmann a chance of redemption, only for him to get brutally murdered by the voice, and because of his status a figment, everyone including Santa himself forgets about him. The heroes ride the elevator one more time to finally confront The Voice, with the previously captured figments joining in the fight as well. In particular Grand Dad managed to hit The Voice in the face, prompting him to respond with shooting a giant laser beam in return, seemingly killing him. But he will soon learn that this is a fatal mistake: Not only did Grand Dad survive the blast, the damage done to him had awakened a powerful being who had a strong connection with the injured figment: SiIvaGunner himself, after sleeping for the past 6 seasons, finally wakes up.
- This "Snow Halation" rip
- Wham Line:
- Halfway through This video
, The Voice Inside Your Head proposes a Merged Reality with memes from both before and after the reboot, and the video appears to be the end of the reboot (especially since The Voice admits he's getting tired of the current universe and starting to miss the old one)... until The Voice reveals that this new reality will exclude Snow Halation. - "Hahahahaha... I'm back." - The Voice In Your Head
- "You can shut up now.
I'm always on duty!" - "No matter.
The Voice is gone anyway." - "Game Over - Dat Boi
" is a darkly comedic rip sung by by UK-Daniel that references the famous "dat boi!
" song, but changes the lyrics to be about Dat Boi being brought into the future, but ultimately suffering and dying. But the rip has a very unexpected ending, especially given that it relates to a plotline the channel didn't touch for quite some time.
Frog: (starts croaking)
UK Daniel: Aaaaaah-
(SPLAT)
The Voice: Yuck. If there's one thing I hate more than anime, it's frogs.- A very minor example, but the beginning of Escape from the City ...for City Escape (10th Anniversary ver.)
marks the return of a certain someone who hasn't been seen on the channel since 2017.
You thought I was fucking dead? You were wrong. Here comes Rental.- The end of Goodbye to a World Fusion Collab has the SiIva A.I. sing the last part of the song, and then glitches out in the same way the song does. However, the error message reveals this ain't mere glitches to the system...
ERROR[COMMENCING A.I PROTOCOL: SHUTDOWN]- Halfway through "Recovered Documents [FILE-INT-BLACK] - Haltmann's Archives
", a major bombshell is dropped with The Reveal that the harbinger The Voice attempted to stop through the Reboot was actually Chad Warden, who was previously portrayed as The Hero of the arc, which heavily throws Chad's prior motives during said arc into question.
The Voice: The fact of the matter is; the harbinger remembers.
Chad Warden remembers. - Halfway through This video
- Wham Shot: The reward for completing the first arc of RE:SPH ARG is a Haltmann's Archives file
that details the President Haltmann's ultimate goal to reunite with his daughter Susie. After the file ended a third-party started speaking, who then reveals themselves to be none other than Susie Haltmann. - Who Writes This Crap!?: DK Rap (Reprise)
ends on this note."What the fuck? I have not seen Silence of the Lambs. This joke isn't funny. Just bring back Grand Dad." - Wrap It Up: Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game
, posted after the channel's end, serves to tie up a major loose end in the channel's lore. - Xylophones for Walking Bones: While "Legendary Ghost" from Cuphead is played on xylophone, it accompanies a ghost rather than a skeleton. SiIva's high-quality rip
, however, contains the melody of "Spooky Scary Skeletons," making it an example of this trope. - You Keep Using That Word: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock
, SiIva pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy. - YouTube Poop: Occasionally.
- Most rips of Donkey Kong 64's "DK Rap" amount to audio-only YTPs, primarily making use of sentence-mixing to make the rap even sillier. "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)
- Sonic Adventure" was also one, making Knuckles rap about a myriad of silly things. - The first two Chad Warden videos were basically YTPs, with him being sentence-mixed to talk about SiIvaGunner fans not liking "Snow halation" rips instead of the seventh-generation Console Wars. Though Chad Warden ended up the only character in the lore to use sentence-mixing for his lines.
- Since 2018, SpongeBob Edited-style YTPs have been a Running Gag albeit sparsely. Some examples include "SiIvaGunner YouTube Trailer
" and (audio-only) "Prologue - Disney's Beauty and the Beast Magical Ballroom
". - Half of the rips of Link: The Faces of Evil are YouTube Poop homages that do not feature the game's soundtrack at all.
- Most rips based on Bowflex infomercials are YTPs, featuring humorous sentence-mixing and pop-up memes.
- Most rips of Donkey Kong 64's "DK Rap" amount to audio-only YTPs, primarily making use of sentence-mixing to make the rap even sillier. "Unknown from M.E. (OST Version)
- YouTuber Apology Parody: The channel has posted several of these, mostly referencing the serious apology video produced by the channel after the "Puzzle Room" incident in 2016:
- "A Sorry Announcement."
is an edit of the apology video posted by Logan Paul following his infamous Aokigahara vlog, with a Digital Head Swap and redubbed with a certain Synthetic Voice Actor. (This was the follow-up to a Logan Paul-themed rip of "Puzzle Room"
, whose Faux Horrific conclusion was a Hypernova-filtered still from said vlog.) - "Apology. (Beta Mix)"
, part of the 2023 April Fools' Day event, follows the text-only format of the 2016 apology video but turns it into a Backhanded Apology with zero contrition. - "Bosun Bill (Beta Mix) - Sea of Thieves"
is a pirate-themed parody of the "Puzzle Room" apology video, including "Twitter" as a Pirate Parrot.
- "A Sorry Announcement."
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